XPost: can.politics, ont.politics, tor.general
XPost: bc.politics
From: ericŪ@hardknocks.edu
Siobhan Medeiros wrote . . .
>
> Chom Noamsky wrote:
> > > "EricŪ" wrote in message
> > > news:MPG.1f9878589ca1307d989bee@news.telus.net...
> > >
> > > BTW hydro reservoirs like McNaughton Lake (Mica Dam) & Williston Lake
> > > (WAC Bennett Dam)in BC produce significant amounts of greenhouse gases
> > > due to the breakdown of organic matter from what used to be forest.
> >
> > The lost forest cover also means loss of a carbon dioxide sink.
>
> First off, eventually the forest finishes rotting.
It does - in hundreds or thousands of years. My example wasn't meant to
mean that hydro is unworkable - only that there are trade-offs.
The old growth West Coast BC rainforest doesn't function well as a
carbon sink. We could cut it all down and plant new fast-growing
forests which would grab much more CO2 from the atmosphere. But I don't
think that trade-off would be acceptable to most people.
We could do that phony CO2 credits trading shell game with Russia etc
under Kyoto.
Or we could rely less on automobiles.
I'm not sure that government's grandiose central planning schemes will
amount to much if they are afraid to inconvenience the voting public.
Eric
ryevpx@hfn.arg
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