Posted on 06/08/2005 4:11:04 PM PDT by Coleus
'Rampant burning and deforestation, mostly at the hands of illegal loggers and of ranchers, release hundreds of millions of tons of carbon dioxide into the skies each year.'
uhhhh...That's what the environmentalists are trying to stop. You're not exactly making your case.
Yea, that line makes the case much better. Saying the forests are consuming oxygen when we burn them is not a good point to argue when trying to support the idea the forest isn't sacracent.
I always found it hard to belive [sic] that forests in one part of the world were supplying oxygen for the rest of the planet.
Perhaps you're implying that some people hold the view that the rain forests are responsible for a very large portion of the oxygen in the atmosphere, and this you find hard to believe. If so, I apologize for supposing that you were overlooking an aspect of physical chemistry.
"Perhaps you're implying that some people hold the view that the rain forests are responsible for a very large portion of the oxygen in the atmosphere"
Yes, that has been what I've been hearing from environmentalists. Perhaps you have been spared this.
"Yea, that line makes the case much better. Saying the forests are consuming oxygen when we burn them is not a good point to argue when trying to support the idea the forest isn't sacracent."
True, but even if the rainforest consumes most of the oxygen it produces, that's not the same as pouring tons of CO2 into the atmosphere as a result of burning it.
Can we burn them before the flood?
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