What's An Enviro Wacko To Do?

Earlier this year, the Swiss came out with their silly ruling regarding “The Dignity of Living Beings with Regard to Plants,”, in which they decided that the arbitrary killing of flora is morally wrong.

So what are you to do if you are a global warming apostle and believe that different trees need to be planted even though there is not one shred of scientific evidence that one tree is better then the other, but in order to do this you must cull the existing trees out of the forest?

Cutting down the aspens would cause new sprouts to multiply, so scientists instead use a technique called "girdling," in which they strip a band of bark from around each tree. It starves the trees by preventing sugars produced by the leaves from traveling to the roots.

In recent weeks, crews have girdled more than 6,700 trees - mostly aspens, with some birches - near one of the measuring towers. They should die in a year or two, allowing other species to flourish.

This silliness is going on in Michigan.

"Are you so sure you can tell us how much carbon is saved from your tree? That's the kind of question that makes people dubious about forest management" as a tool for limiting greenhouse gases, Pershing said.

Curtis and Vogel can't say yet how much carbon the new blend of trees will absorb, but they hope to find out.

So all you folks buying your carbon credits and having companies plant trees in a feel good attempt to assuage your guilty conscience about climate change have just another piece of evidence that points to you being a sucker.

I wonder how that will look on a bumper sticker: Starve a tree for global warming.