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Wednesday, February 02, 2011

Planting Trees

BBC:
China, Vietnam, the Philippines and India have all seen their forested areas increase in size.

Meanwhile, here in the United States, the majority party in the House of Representatives, to a man, proudly declare their disbelief in anthropogenic climate change because seasons still change or because God promised Noah in a children's story that He's got his temper under control or what have you, and Republican governors refuse funds for public transit projects because they believe government is bad in principle when it is engaging in anything but wars, and even many of our "serious greens" want to masturbate about corporate-military science fictional mega-engineering schemes involving space mirrors in orbit or massive undersea cathedrals of piping or fleets of sulfur spewing airships instead of environmental activism and legislation because it's too hard.

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