Letters to the Editor
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Trees
Ok, the natural solution to global warming is to plant trees. Good. I have also heard of algae farms on the ocean. Another idea.
I do not know the exact math as to whether plainting trees ALONE will actually stop global warming, but that is not my point here. I'm sure it won't...
However, capitalism is destroying the forests at a record rate throughout most of the world. Only a global agreement to protect the forests will lead to retaining trees. Let's say the assholes who want to put cane ethanol in their SUVs encourage Brazil to cut down the Amazonian rain forest, which they are doing right now. Who's going to stop them? Is mother earth going to stop them? Or the poor people who have been provided no other fuel but wood, how are you going to stop them destroying the forest, like they destroyed Haiti's forests, for instance?
Or the pricks who buy expensive wood furniture from some endangered hardwood in Indonesia?
Assuming nature is going to start planting it's own trees and stay the hand of the chainsaw in this present world is clueless at best. Perhaps after the human species has destroyed itself partly, it will.
Ignoring the human role in global warming, and 'doing nothing' will, even by the sole "tree" or "Algae" solution, lead to ... increased global warming. We really need to control the market in order to address this problem, and that is what the tiny minority of U.S.A. Republican global warming deniers are really afraid of. They think the 'market' cannot be tampered with. At the root of their denial of global warming is support for laissez faire capitalism, and nothing more, as most of their funders are in the polluting and global warming industries... auto, coal, oil, etc.
Growing trees requires a restraint on the present 'market'.