First Name | pam |
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Last Name | nelson |
Email Address | pamela05n@peoplepc.com |
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Subject | greenhouse cap and trade-no |
Comment | We cannot and should not try to CLEARCUT OUR WAY OUT OF CLIMATE CHANGE.We should adopt only programs that will most reliably assure actual sequestration and avoid those that ignore carbon impacts of entire components of the activity seeking to be called an “offset” such as clearcuts. We should particularly avoid subsidizing clearcuts because they are extremely difficult to assure additionality, and they also pose big environmental risks California’s working timberlands are also important for the ecological services they provide, not only for nature, habitat and wildlife, but for people too. Our forests are the lungs of the earth that purify our air. Our forests control sedimentation and temperature of the waters we drink, and on which our salmon depend for reproduction. Even aged, clearcut forests are less resilient, more prone to fire and disease, and provide less diversity of habitat for the species on which nature and Californians depend. |
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted | 2010-11-18 18:15:43 |
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