[Vwdiesel] Re: OT Ecosystem

[Libbybapa at wmconnect.com]

In a message dated 2/21/05 11:31:37 PM US Mountain Standard Time, 
jhsg at sasktel.net writes:


> CO2 and fixing of carbon freed by fossil fuel usage aren't about land based
> photosynthesizers at all.  Plant a million trees, let them age, mature, die
> and eventually rot and/or burn in the most organic natural pristine fashion
> possible.  EVERY bit of CO2 that was fixed by them is released when you
> include the leaves and twigs that fall off over their lives.  Rotting is
> only slow burning. 

It is true that after they are removed and burned or rotted they replace the 
same amount, but while being a forest they ARE a tremendous amount of fixed 
carbon.  When that forest is removed, burned or rotted and replaced by a field 
for grazing cattle, that carbon is not fixed.  I am not oposed at all to the 
logging industry.  My family is in the wood industry in Maine.  I do wood 
floors.  I am a carbon sink.  I Fix carbon to subfloors where hopefully it won't rot 
or burn.  Wood is a nice renewable resource.  I am opposed to removing large 
amounts of trees and not replacing them.    Responsible use of resources and 
achieving a workable cycle that seems key to me.
Andrew