At some point I hope someone do an extensive analysis of the following On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: > The New York Times / December 20, 2009 > > Op-Ed Contributor > Clear-Cutting the Truth About Trees > By BERND HEINRICH
But one part of it is so truly awful I had to post an immediate response. >After much political wrangling, the Kyoto delegates decided that there would >be no carbon-reduction credits for saving existing forests. As bad or worse than planting a pine tree as an excuse for burning coal, is using not cutting down a forest as an excuse for continuing to burn coal. It is absolutely true that some sort of incentive should be provided for forest preservation. But it is really appalling to suggest that this incentive should take the form of carbon credits, that is permissions to continue to burn coal. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
