First Name | Richard |
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Last Name | Kangas |
Email Address | rkangas02@comcast.net |
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Subject | Cap and trade without clearcutting or the like |
Comment | 11/30/10 Dear ARB Members, The removal of forest vegetation simply is NOT justified by any need to offset carbon emissions. Our forests store carbon. Legalizing the removal of forests to provide carbon emission credits thus makes no sense. Polluting industries should offset polluting industries. We should not promote forest removal to further encourage polluting industries. Our forests, whether private or public, are part of our most important natural heritage. They provide many resources for our benefit and enjoyment. You know what those are. I will not list them here. Very little of the natural forest remains in the United States and for this statement, in California in particular. We should not encourage the continued demise of our forests simply to continue present-day polluting industries. On the other hand we should be promoting TRUE restoration of our forest resources. Our forests should be restored and last for the ages. Our forests should not be managed as an inconvenient tool with which polluting industries can mask their wasteful extravagances while innovate, cleaner, greener, less destructive replacements for those industries are held in abeyance. Polluting industries will last only until resources for those industries are squandered. Let's not squander our forest and waters and air just to promote squander. Yours truly, Rich Kangas |
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted | 2010-11-30 08:43:50 |
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