First Name | Walter |
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Last Name | Carnahan |
Email Address | w_carnahan@sbcglobal.net |
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Subject | Clear cutting adds carbon to the atmosphere. |
Comment | It is difficult to understand how allowing clear cutting can positively influence the carbon content of the atmosphere. While industry may wish to identify a positive contribution over a century time period experience and common sense says that projections over 100 years are never accurate. What is clear is that the short term effects of harvesting timber add carbon to the atmosphere and clear cutting adds more carbon. Time horizon's in the business world are for good reason notoriously short-sighted. There is no reason to suddenly adopt a century perspective. If within the next hundred we have not completely changed the carbon budgets in a revolutionary fashion we will have certainly suffered a revolution in the ecosystem and eliminated the habitat of a large number of plants and animals. The thrust of this proposal is to promote short-term timber harvests increasing the atmospheric carbon load while securing some unknown benefits in a long-term uncertain future. Clearly a bad bargain. Please remove this provision and rethink the entire protocol. |
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted | 2010-12-14 15:00:17 |
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