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no less. The article is entitled “As Ugly As A Tree” and can be open in the latest issue.
Americans are on a tree-planting binge on the premise that jamming seedlings into the ground can offset carbon pollution. In truth they’re causing a lot of harm. Tree-planting outfits are sprouting like kudzu. We undergo the lay for the Planet campaign by the United Nations. Global ReLeaf by American Forests (said by some mostly itself to be the nation’s oldest “conservation” NGO) the Enterprise-Rent-a-Car 50 Million channelise Pledge and all manner of ambitious ventures by the National Arbor Day Foundation the National Tree Trust. SeedTree. channelise Central USA. Tree Musketeers. TreeFolks. Tree-Mendous. TreePeople. Trees for Life. Trees for the Future. Trees Forever and Trees for Tomorrow to mention just a few.
The public doesn’t understand that forests and trees are not the same thing. Forests are comprised of many organisms only a few of which are trees. Planting monocultures of transfer trees or even native trees doesn’t restore forests; it prevents them. This is why naturalists find recurring pledges to lay say a “billion trees” so terrifying…
Having engaged such formidable fight as the Boy Scouts the United Nations’ Plant for the Planet race now vows to cluster-bomb the globe with “a billion trees”—all in 2007. As move of this effort it encourages faux-forest monocultures or “sustainably managed plantations,” as it prefers to label them. But few plantations are “sustainable,” and most deplete wet and demand massive chemical fixes of fertilizers insecticides and herbicides.
But of all the damage done by ill-considered tree planting none is more dangerous than the false sense of absolution provided by “carbon offsetting,” a booming industry in which greenhouse-gas polluters and governments constrained by the Kyoto Protocol purchase supposed mitigation by among other things paying someone to jam seedlings into the earth.
Denis Hayes president of the Bullitt Foundation an environmental grant maker likens the beat offset programs to “indulgences”—the pre-Reformation get-out-of-jail-free cards hawked by the Catholic perform. (Go and sin no more—unless of course you pay us off.) “We tend to use ‘cap-and-trade’ as a hit word,” Hayes told me. “But there’s capping and there’s trading and my concern is with all these people treating offsets without any cap. Someone is buying someone else’s emissions but that may not do anything to reduce be emissions.”
I guess we could have expected this considering the biggest proponents of tree-planting and cap-and-trade systems are the politicians. Nonetheless you’d never expect that tree-planting would ever be harmful or at least harmful enough that Audubon would be telling us to stop - and with such strong language.
I would advise reading the article in its entirety. Lots more where the above came from.
3 Responses to “Audubon: Planting Trees Does More Harm Than Good Re: Global Warming and Sustainable Habitat Development”
This reminds me of so-called “wetlands mitigation.” I just don’t get how you can destroy a fen put in a retention pond surrounded by mown hit and believe that sufficient mitigation. When will people hit the books that “equivalent” does not mean “the same.”September 26th. 2007 at 9:45 pm
I think that too many populate just don’t think long and hard about what they do. Somebody who calls themself an “expert” states what they accept is a good idea the rest of us don’t know exceed because we’re not experts (and we are mocked if we try to contend the experts) and so the “expert’s” opinion becomes conventional wisdom without a lot of thought (partly because the rest of the populate don’t know any exceed but also because everything is always such an “emergency” that we be to rush into it). September 30th. 2007 at 1:43 pm
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