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10/26/2023 2:17:41 PM
 
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Section 4: President & Congress Subject: Hushed-up fossil fuel QUESTIONS Msg# 1194180
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| I'm all for planting trees and I support anything that increases our natural habitats. But I am leery of wrapping all of this up with the climate change people who are the same loonies pushing electric cars, wind and solar power and trying to kill off oil, natural gas, clean coal, and destroying the energy grid. If I thought we could work with just the folks supporting planting trees I'd be all in, but when every third phrase in their narratives is "climate change," it makes me nervous. Their motives are not my motives. In other words, reforestation for different reasons. | ||||||
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: Here's another topic, with a big connection to nature itself that deserves much more attention than the media has been featuring. Its called -- planting a trillion new trees. Report titled: Planting 1.2 Trillion Trees Could Cancel Out a Decade of CO2 Emissions, Scientists Find, Feb. 2019 Click Here. Two prominent studies published in 2013 and 2016 have earlier pointed out how increasing CO2 levels have produced growing amounts of greening of the globe's forests Image Title: CO2 is greening dry regions
Image Title: CO2 is making Earth greener  School kids, of course, are aware how plants absorb CO2 and release oxygen, while growing their stems & branches as well as producing fruits, vegetables & lumber, etc. Besides sequestering (storing) quantities of CO2, studies have shown how plants and trees can thrive on lower amounts of water. Among these gains are significant increases in the crop yields needed to feed the globe's growing populations. Folks might wonder why there's not broad support among officials. Are the govt & media afraid of recognizing the 90% public polling supporting such plans? The efforts to add up to 1.2 trillion trees have received some “favorable words” but there’s been lack of follow thru on those pledges. In 2020 Trump pledged US support for the trillion trees initiative at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. Click Here But the congress has, so far, been unsuccessful in passing related legislation, as proposed by GOP members, and certain scientists. Yet the World Economic Forum, three years later, is still promoting this project. Here’s their 2023 report Click Here Quotes: "Trees also sequester carbon. . . along with mangroves, peatlands, wetlands and other ecosystems, forests have the potential to sequester enough carbon to bring our emissions reductions one-third of the way to our interim 2030 targets . . . Sadly, wide scale degradation and loss of forests is hindering the ability for trees to do their part in carbon sequestration. Seems that Biden is so intense against oil and gas and favoring EV's he won't use this nature-based approach. Could it be that Joe's hate for anything Trump liked is driving Biden's policies?? |
