hink of it all - of the life that is! Study your friends and foes!
Study the past! And answer this: "Are these times better than those?" The life-long quarrel, the paltry spite, the sting of your poisoned pride! No matter who fell it were better to fight as they did when the world was wide.
Australian Forests Re-thought
"Scientists and environmentalists have long promoted the value of trees in fighting pollution, but they are re-thinking just how valuable Australia's forests are in helping the fight against greenhouse gases.[...]
The scientists found that the forests can store three times more carbon than previously thought.
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About half of Australia's forests have been cleared in the last two centuries. In three quarters of these, carbon stocks have been degraded by human activities such as logging."
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Another reason to halt or even wind back our impact on our environment, as if we really needed another.
Human environmental impact universally involves two factors: population level and the rate of consumption by this population. To stabalise/reduce our impact on the environment to any significant degree we need either to cap further population increases/wind back our population or cap further increases in consumption (economists' idea of 'living standards')/reduce consumption levels. There is no 'easy' way out.