LET'S STOP BEING FOOLED WITH TREES (and explain it to all your friends)

The United States and most affluent Western societies produce about twenty tons of carbon dioxide per year, per head of population. And the numbers are. A new growing forest produces about twenty cubic metres of wood per year, per hectare. Timber growth in rain forests can reach forty cubic cubic metres, but all the tropical rain forests are already saturated and can't absorb any more CO2. Old trees are dieing and rotting and turning back into carbon dioxide as fast as new trees sprout. Stability has been reached. That dump is full and can take no more. If a rainforest kept absorbing carbon, then after a few thousand, or even a few hundred years the forest floor should be metres deep, yards deep in carbon, but it's not. There is not even much humus in the soil. (Forest Soils and Nutrient Cycles by Dr. Peter Attiwill and Prof. Geoffrey Leeper. University of Melbourne. Australia).

Wood has twice as much carbon as carbon dioxide but it's porous and less dense - that's why it floats. So we need to start a new forest and grow twenty cubic metres of wood per year to compensate for the twenty tons of CO2 we each produce.

In about thirty years the old trees start dying off. So forest growth stabilizes and ceases absorbing CO2. As a CO2 sink, our forest is full.

At age thirty each of us would need another empty hectare of land to plant and grow more trees for our next thirty years of CO2 production. Then the next generation would need their couple of hectares.

Humans on average have about 0.8 ha or two acres of agricultural land to live on and grow all their food and fibre. Trees as a carbon sink is a giant PR fabrication that suits the fossil fuel industries and the brain deas masses that believe their fiction and hug a tree.

"The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.".. Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf 1925.

But I prefer Lincoln "---but you can not fool all of the people all of the time".

Allan Yeomans.