[FatherofFive]

but it was a good teaching moment for grandpa and I thought I should share

You may have mentioned it, but be sure to tell the kids trees live on Carbon Dioxide. Without CO2 the trees and plants die. Without trees and plants making oxygen, we all die.

[Jeff Head]

We did talk about it. The message of the movie (one of them) was that without trees we have no air. When they clear cut all the trees in the story...a really bad capilatlist came along selling people clean air. I showed them the forests right before their eyes to show them that there are plenty of trees, even though in Idaho it is one of our major job and product producers. They understood intrinsically that the timber companies are not cutting down all the trees and destroying our air...but that they are planting more...in fact more than they take. Also, I explained how good harvesting actually improves the forest and the habitat for the animals.

Anyhow, we had a good talk about all of this and they came away from it understanding that there are people with causes who will slant the trth in order to influence them and that they should be critical thinkers and look around them to see the trugh of these things...and then talk to epople who are involved and people they trust.

[kitkat]

“You may have mentioned it, but be sure to tell the kids trees live on Carbon Dioxide. Without CO2 the trees and plants die. Without trees and plants making oxygen, we all die. “

As I recall, that’s basically what Reagan said, and was accused of being wrong. He was right, of course, but the liberals (idiots) said that trees were bad. Now, they claim we shouldn’t cut them down.