The area was not logged, according to Sally Jewell Coxe, the president of the bonobo conservation group, because of economic paralysis from years of warfare that cost several million human lives and because Mobutu Sese Seko, the country's dictator for three decades, «never wanted to exploit the forest.» (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
The fallout from this, Solyndra, and quite possibly several other heavily - funded grand ideas is not just the loss of big pots of public and private money, but the creation of a snake - bit and conservative economic paralysis in exactly those technological areas that are and will be vital in the near future. (gigaom.com)