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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: LindyBill who wrote (192579)1/11/2007 1:24:13 PM
From: ManyMoose  Read Replies (2) of 793900
 
Michael S. Dell, who made his name building computers, has a new goal: planting trees.

The thing that nobody seems to get is that in order to plant trees you first cut some.

There's a big difference in terminology that the average environmentalist does not comprehend.

DEforestation (what they would have us believe is the goal of the forest industry) is cutting forests and replacing them with something else. Such as housing developments for yuppies, Ski Runs for yuppies, freeways for yuppiemobiles, cornfields, soybean fields, and so forth.

Aforestation is planting forests where none existed before. There are precious few examples of this.

REforestation is planting forests and managing them on forest land that has been harvested with a REGENERATION cut.

I don't know which computer manufacturers are using formed woodpulp packaging instead of styrofoam, but they can do a lot more for the environment by doing so than by planting a bunch of trees haphazardly without a clear management objective.
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