Comments on: Climate Legislation: A Blueprint for Success http://blog.nature.org/2009/01/climate-legislation-a-blueprint-for-success/ A blog on conservation, from migratory birds to coral reefs, from rainforests to climate change to personal green technology. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:29:30 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Luminus http://blog.nature.org/2009/01/climate-legislation-a-blueprint-for-success/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Luminus Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:34:40 +0000 http://blog.nature.org/?p=1188#comment-28 Thanks for updating us on the progress made on the carbon tap and trade discussion. I am especially glad to see that it was agreed that conserving forests to store and capture carbon was a piece of the climate change equation. Now, what according to you is the number one cause of deforestation of old grove and rainforest around the world? For construction material? Nope! More than 90% of the Amazon rainforest cleared since 1970 has been used for livestock pasture! Every second, rainforest the size of a footbal field is destroyed to produce 257 hamburgers! In May 2008, his Royal Highness Prince Charles publically stated that we have 18 months to halt deforestation to preserve life on this planet! So if we are really seriously concerned about global warming, we CANNOT continue to let this happen. The massacre of ancient trees, forests and innocent gentle animals MUST end. Not to mention the waste of grain, water, the abject pollution this industry has been allowed to produce without any penalty or onus on cleaning up its horrendous mess. Another point, that I would like to make is that conventional agriculture, ladden with petroleum based pesticides and herbicides, produces large amount of C02. Organic food, on the other hand, is known to capture C02 and keep it in the soil for long periods of time. Therefore, organic farmers and food should be supported while conventional agro-farming should be penalized for contributing to the problem and adding to the CO2 bill we are trying to reduce. We all have to eat, that is one thing we share. So this decision is far reaching. This is also why I am a proponent of having Victory gardens in every city across the nation. This will reduce pollution, create local food security in case climate change continues to create havoc in states that are currently growing our food (like in Ohio last year). We hae no Plan B at the moment. We need one and this is the best one I can think of. It is how we started in this nation and will most likely be how we end! Keep up the good work but remember that everything is connected. What we eat plays a huge role in how we will survive the economic downturn, the unknown unravelling of climate change. Thanks for updating us on the progress made on the carbon tap and trade discussion.

I am especially glad to see that it was agreed that conserving forests to store and capture carbon was a piece of the climate change equation.

Now, what according to you is the number one cause of deforestation of old grove and rainforest around the world? For construction material? Nope! More than 90% of the Amazon rainforest cleared since 1970 has been used for livestock pasture! Every second, rainforest the size of a footbal field is destroyed to produce 257 hamburgers!

In May 2008, his Royal Highness Prince Charles publically stated that we have 18 months to halt deforestation to preserve life on this planet! So if we are really seriously concerned about global warming, we CANNOT continue to let this happen. The massacre of ancient trees, forests and innocent gentle animals MUST end. Not to mention the waste of grain, water, the abject pollution this industry has been allowed to produce without any penalty or onus on cleaning up its horrendous mess.

Another point, that I would like to make is that conventional agriculture, ladden with petroleum based pesticides and herbicides, produces large amount of C02.

Organic food, on the other hand, is known to capture C02 and keep it in the soil for long periods of time. Therefore, organic farmers and food should be supported while conventional agro-farming should be penalized for contributing to the problem and adding to the CO2 bill we are trying to reduce.

We all have to eat, that is one thing we share. So this decision is far reaching. This is also why I am a proponent of having Victory gardens in every city across the nation. This will reduce pollution, create local food security in case climate change continues to create havoc in states that are currently growing our food (like in Ohio last year). We hae no Plan B at the moment. We need one and this is the best one I can think of. It is how we started in this nation and will most likely be how we end!

Keep up the good work but remember that everything is connected. What we eat plays a huge role in how we will survive the economic downturn, the unknown unravelling of climate change.

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