"Mike Jacoubowsky" <
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>> Just so you understand what's going on here - if we used 100% of the corn
>> crop we produce, it could only replace 12% of the petroleum we use.
>
> Agreed. It's a terribly inefficient use of resources. And you skipped an
> easy target, too. Shame on you. How could you pass up those full-page ads
> Clinton ran a while back, talking about how great Brazil was because they
> were producing so much gas from ethanol? Never mind that they're using
> land made available through the destruction of their rain forrests,
> something the world is badly in need of.
I find it curious that someone as obviously intelligent as you is so easily
misled. Here's a clue - if you had ACTUALLY read the Duelfer report instead
of pretending to read it by quoting a paragraph from the summary, you'd have
actually learned the truth. But that was too much trouble since you could
more easily parrot Al Gore.
You can do a Google search and hit a thousand sites telling you what a
horrible loss of rainforest we're seeing. The problem is that most of it is
lies and distortions. (Worldwatch reported that Canada was losing 200,000
hectares of forest a year - fact is that Canada is GAINING 176,000 hectares
annually). One Green Group tells us that there are only 2 billion hectares
of rain forest in the world and that 16 million of them are being lost each
year.
"Rainforests once covered 14% of the earth's land surface; now they cover a
mere 6% and experts estimate that the last remaining rainforests could be
consumed in less than 40 years." (by the way - this group blames part of the
destruction of rainforsest on - you guessed it - oil companies searching for
oil).
Want some truth (you can't handle the truth!) - Landsat satellite surveys of
rainforest show that 87.5% of rain forests are intact and of the other 12.5%
half of it is regenerating itself. 94% of the Amazon rain forest is
pristine.
Patrick Moore, a founding member of Greenpeace, says "the rainforests of the
Amazon, Congo, Malasia, and Indonesia, ... are the least endangered forests
[because] they are the least suitable for human habitation." Why do you
suppose Patrick Moore quit Greenpeace?
Because they lie to people like you who. like, really want to be hip and
cool and, like, be really environmentally concious. It's, like, too bad
you're actually unconcious.
The researchers also looked into claims about 50,000 species going extinct
each year in the rainforest. And what did they find? Well, when they asked a
member of Rainforest Relief to produce even one species that has gone
extinct, the individual replied "No we cannot, because we don't know what
those species are." Apparently, the extinction statistics are generated by a
computer at Harvard University and may, in fact, carry no more semblance to
reality than "electrons on a hard drive."
What is plain is that most of the people here want to seem to act young - to
be college minded indiciduals from the 60's instead of adults. And so we see
the results - global warming is SO IMPORTANT. Too bad no one cares that it's
all a hoax, just as Global Cooling was in the 70's.
Here's something worth reading so I don't suppose anyone here will:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=19625
