“Across the U.S. as a whole, approximately 50 percent of the warming that has occurred since 1950 is due to land use changes (usually in the form of clearing forest for crops or cities) rather than to the emission of greenhouse gases.” That’s the news from Georgia Tech City and Regional Planning Professor Brian Stone, as reported via Environmental News Network.
As any alert student of planet Earth can readily see, this climate change business gets more complicated every day. It turns out that almost any humanoid activity you can think of results in a dastardly effect upon the climate. We’ve all known that clearing forests is never a keen idea where ecosystem integrity is concerned.
Especially if said clearing is for “crops or cities.” That was pretty well established circa 2,500 B.C.
What’s a Neo-Green to do as we zoom towards the New World Order? Perhaps we could take a page out of Professor Stone’s book – “slowing the rate of forest loss around the world, and regenerating forests where lost, could significantly slow the pace of global warming.” Capital idea! Let’s start with regenerating the good Professor’s home town: Atlanta.
I see a bright green forest where CNN used to be.
posted by Mudd
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