Posted on 04/12/2008 9:02:56 PM PDT by george76
“’nuclear renaissance” ?
California’s $3.2 billion in solar subsidies is all just going into Silicon Valley companies and consultants.
This guy is right on the money, it looks like the idea is getting more MSM traction.
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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I can't can't find my copy of his Pacific Spirit (the forest reborn) to quote from, but he has distilled it down to 18 pages in "Trees are the Answer" at his Greenspirit website and it's well worth the time if you want to understand the benefits of clearcutting.
How many BTU’s can be extracted from your average enviro?
Cram it clown; we don't need you now; the damage has been done and is not repairable.
Prepare for the end of the great American empire based on cheap energy! Prepare to watch your grandchildren chase chickens in the street for food - things are going to change big time and the screw-ups in DC and their commie leftist pinko wackos in the environmental movement are responsible!
It didn't need to be this way, but the Yimmy Carter and the democrats had a better idea.
depends on how well they...uh..have been dining.
He is, indeed
. . . the last paragraphs of 'Trees are the Answer' at Greenspirit:
To conclude, let me take you back to the rainforest of the West Coast of North America. About 300 feet from my house in downtown Vancouver is Pacific Spirit Park, 2000 acres of beautiful native forest, right in the heart of the city. It is not a botanical garden where people come and prune the bushes and plant tulip bulbs, it is the real thing, a wild west coast rainforest full of Douglas-fir, western red cedar, hemlock, maple, alder and cherry. But people who come by the hundreds each day to walk on the many trails in Pacific Spirit Park would find it hard to believe that all 2000 acres were completely clearcut logged around the turn of the century to feed the sawmills that helped build Vancouver.
The loggers who clearcut Pacific Spirit Park with double-bitted axes and crosscut saws long before the chainsaw was invented didn't know the words ecology or biodiversity any more than my grandfather did on the north end of Vancouver Island. They just cut the timber and moved on to cut more somewhere else. Nothing was done to help restore the land, but it was left alone. It became part of the University of British Columbia Endowment Lands, and was not developed into housing like the rest of Vancouver. It all grew back into a beautiful new forest and in 1989 was declared a regional park.
In Pacific Spirit Park, there are Douglas-firs over four feet in diameter and over 120 feet tall. All of the beauty has returned to Pacific Spirit Park. The fertility has returned to the soil. And the biodiversity has recovered; the mosses, ferns, fungi, liverworts, and all the other small things that are part of a natural forest. There are pileated woodpeckers, barred owls, ravens, hawks, eagles, coyotes and a colony of great blue herons nesting in the second-growth cedar trees. It is a forest reborn, reborn from what is routinely described in the media as the "total and irreversible destruction of the environment". I don't buy that. I believe that if forests can recover by themselves from total and complete destruction, that with our growing knowledge of forest science in silviculture, biodiversity conservation, soils, and genetics; we can ensure that the forests of this world continue to provide an abundant, and hopefully growing, supply of renewable wood to help build and maintain our civilization while at the same time providing an abundant, and hopefully growing, supply of habitat for the thousands of other species that depend on the forest for their survival every day just as much as we do. The fact is, a world without forests is as unthinkable as a day without wood. And it's time that politicians, environmentalists, foresters, teachers, journalists, and the general public got that balance right. Because we must get it right if we are going to achieve sustainability in the 21st century.
SNIP. . . As is now planned, I'd establish a recycling industry for nuclear fuel, which reduces the amount of waste to less than 10 percent of what it would be without recycling. How many Americans know that 50 percent of the nuclear energy being produced in the U.S. is now coming from dismantled Russian nuclear warheads? The environmental movement is going on about how terrible it will be if someone does something destructive with these materials. Well, actually the opposite is occurring: all over the world, people are using former nuclear-weapons material for peaceful purposesswords into plowshares. . . . . SNIP
Depends... If you just burn the body, you get one figure.
But if you use thermal depolymerization to rend the body into a light, crude oil... you’ll get another.
:-P
The news reaches Newsweek several years after the news reached FR. It’s ancient enough to be showing up in school history and civics textbooks except for the little problem of GW heresy.
Thanks
It’s good to see an environmentalist that’s not an enviro nut job!
Thanks for the ping.
Some are surprised that an alleged environmentalist like Paul Watson has not killed him.
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