It takes a tree one hundred years to offset the carbon emitted by a jet plane flying a few hours, notes Jonathan Silvertown. He goes on:
The forest ecologist Oliver Rackham has described carbon offsetting with trees as like trying to prevent sea-level rise by encouraging people to drink more water. Globally, we consume a million years’ accumulation of fossil fuels each year. Only a drastic reduction in fossil fuel consumption can significantly limit carbon dioxide emissions. We must not only spare living trees the chainsaw, but fossil trees the furnace. ("Green poles," by Jonathan Silvertown, Times Literary Supplement, Nov. 23, 2007, p. 29.)
The cure for global warming is stopping human over-breeding, which is why donations are better made to Planned Parenthood than to Johnny Appleseed organizations.
For information about Jonathan Silvertown, click here. For information about Oliver Rackham, click here. To see the frightening trend of out-of-control breeding, click here.
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