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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries
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To: LLCF who wrote (5207)6/22/2001 11:21:22 PM
From: Hawkmoon   of 74559
 
Actually, I'm one of those people who believe that as CO2 levels rise, there is a natural trend for different plant life to take advantage of that condition. If the rain-forest is cut down, then more algae will grow in the oceans given the inducement of more CO2 in the atmosphere.

And given that there is more forested land NOW in the US, than there was in the 1800s (when every available acre was farm land), I can see where it's hard for us to complain. But then again, most of the land we farmed was good crop land, whereas the rain forest possesses lousy soil conditions. A couple of harvests and the minerals are leached out the point where it's time to move on to the next patch of triple canopy jungle.

And it's not like agriculture is the most economically productive form of employment. However, it does denote ownership of some form of property, which is important to every individual.

Thus, it would make sense to encourage other forms of economic activity that would be more financially rewarding.

Hawk
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