Dear FOREST-readers, >From the recent contribution copied below to the list, it seems to me as some foresters thinks it's a solution to global warming to make distubances in natural forests to keep up CO2 sequestrations? I am shocked! Earlier I have also seen arguments on the benefits of making large scale plantations to squestrate CO2. Plantations have even been made in the South by electric companies in the North to compensate for establishment of new power plants. By promoting such practise plantations will in the end occupy territorry that could otherwise be used by poor farmers. I find such solutions unethical from a biological and social view point. If you look at sequestration rates, trees are not very efficient for this purpose. As an example, sea water have a much higher CO2 binding capacity. Thus, enlarging the contactsurface between sea water and the atmosphere would very likely be much more efficient. This could be done by just breaking down some dams. This is ofcorse a joke since this solution is just as unacceptable to human societies. A much more rational and far sighted approach will be to direct activities and investments into a Global attempt of reducing the EMISSIONS. This could be done by development and introduction of cleaner technology and putting constraints on use of products which causes relatively high contribution to the atmospheric CO2 pool. To make plantations or "disturbe" natural forests with the purpose of removing CO2 will not deal with the problems but only the symptoms. ...I probably entered a mine field ;-) - but look forward to a debate on this subject Best regards, Thor Hjarsen Centre for Tropical Biodiversity University of Copenhagen Universitetsparken 15, 2100 Copenhagen Fax: + 45 35 32 10 10 E-mail: THjarsen@zmuc.ku.dk ---------- From: owner-forest To: Multiple recipients of list FOREST Subject: Natural Steady State Carbon Storage [Fwd] Date: DD May YYYY 10:23 Received: from elvis.esd.ornl.gov ([128.219.24.81]) by mtigwc01.worldnet.att.net (post.office MTA v2.0 0613 ) with ESMTP id AAA27609 for <gklund@worldnet.att.net>; Thu, 1 May 1997 14:00:45 +0000 Received: (from jonathan@localhost) by elvis.esd.ornl.gov (8.8.4/8.8.4) id KAA09324 for gklund@worldnet.att.net; Thu, 1 May 1997 10:02:18 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 1 May 97 14:02:18 +0000 From: Jonathan Adams <jonathan@elvis.esd.ornl.gov> Subject: Re: Fgdc veg standards To: gklund@worldnet.att.net Message-id: <199705011402.KAA09324@elvis.esd.ornl.gov> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-MD5: c0gFKLI1+lMGCCbNQK6Bqw== By the way, in case you're interested, I'm putting together an inventory on the web of 'natural steady state' carbon storage in world ecosystems. This is a really neglected area; how long will carbon keep accumulating in forests if we leave them to revert to a natural state? I'm putting forward some fugures here for discussion. The introductory URL to this set of pages is; http://www.esd.ornl.gov/ern/qen/carbon1.html I'd be grateful if you could forward this to the folks on the list. Thanks, Jonathan Adams
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