To the voices springing up to suggest more trees will only hinder the fight against climate change, I ask, How so? To spin the topic in opposition to truth is a damaging thing at a moment climate change imperils our world.
Part of the argument is that when trees fall to the ground, they emit carbon into the atmosphere as they decompose. True, but as they lie on the ground, they also shed seeds that result in seedlings sprouting up in abundance. immediantly sucking more carbon out of the air than is being emitted by the dead logs.
Trees remain vital in the fight against climate change. There are those who would say they are not. There are those who would suggest we need to harvest the Amazon and other forests to fill the world's need for wood and to open up land for mining and agriculture. Don't leave the trees to decompose on the ground, they say, but haul the lumber away where it can do some good.
Such a sly and designing twist of the truth is dangerous in this moment of peril. We must reject the falsehood for what it is. Divers suggestions should not be allowed to parade as truth.
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