Take Part in a Global Art / Tree Event

[ckolony]

Sign up now to plant a tree before next summer solstice (June 21 2005), and join a virtual druidic community in the battle against global warming. Dedicate your tree to a friend or a cause. It's free, and it might just make a difference.

Late this November, on the 7th anniversary of the first Kyoto talks, David Wood will ceremonially plant a Nanten tree in the gardens of the Global Environmental Studies Graduate Faculty at Kyoto University. This tree will be the first tree in the garden, a state-protected historical monument.

check out the website at http://www.circularsystem.com/trees/

chris

[Magikal]

Even aside from all the evidence that global warming is a natural, cyclic event, and in fact that some 95% of greenhouse gasses (read: carbon dioxide, what you breath out) come from ol' Mamma Nature herself? I'm certainly all for planting trees (Sonny Bono might object), but the Kyoto agreement would have gutted America's industrial base and driven our economy into an irreversible nosedive. The wet dream of the hard left, to be certain, but for all of us trying to pay our bills & build our lives, it might prove a little inconvenient.

[ckolony]

I think that the jury is still out on the effect of Koyoto on the Ameican economy. If one is worried about gutting the American economy, maybe we shouldn't be outsourcing so many jobs, spending billions on war in Iraq, or giving tax cuts to the richest amongst us. It is just a question of priorities. Just take the Iraq - if we spent that money on education and the enivonment we would be able achieve significant improvements in these area. Kyoto might not have been great for coporate profits, but the markets would have adopted, the US would have a say in the future of the treaty and how it would be applied/revised.

[tisha2]

Even aside from all the evidence that global warming is a natural, cyclic event, and in fact that some 95% of greenhouse gasses (read: carbon dioxide, what you breath out) come from ol' Mamma Nature herself? I'm certainly all for planting trees (Sonny Bono might object), but the Kyoto agreement would have gutted America's industrial base and driven our economy into an irreversible nosedive. The wet dream of the hard left, to be certain, but for all of us trying to pay our bills & build our lives, it might prove a little inconvenient.

!! oohhh, dayamn!! even if it wasn't in the middle of this eco/political debate!! that one could stand all by itself...
oohh...! that is funny!

[Magikal]

I think that the jury is still out on the effect of Koyoto on the Ameican economy. If one is worried about gutting the American economy, maybe we shouldn't be outsourcing so many jobs.

I agree on this one. No "Made in China" crap for me! No supporting the world's last (thank God), largest commie dictatorship, either! Even if Bill Klintoon did, by accepting bribes from the PRC, in return for which he provided classified missle technology they needed to nuke Los Angeles. And San Fran.

spending billions on war in Iraq.

For a good cause (global freedom is a good cause). There are more than a few veterans wounded in Iraq who would go back, if they could. Unlike liberals, they believe in what we are doing there, fighting for freedom.

or giving tax cuts to the richest amongst us.

Yes, tho I know the hard lefties among us don't want to hear it, when you free up the capital of the eeeeeevvvviiiillllll rich, they (gasp!) re-invest their money, into what makes them even more money!!!!!!!!! Like hiring more workers, creating more jobs, and contributing to the economy!!! Those eeevvviiilll bastards! Let's tax them out of existance!!!!!!!!!!

Not that I'm bitter, but when the [sarcasm]fair, impartial, unbiased "news media"[/sarcasm] gleefully repeats the propaganda...erm, pardon me, the "press releases" of the lefties, I tend to be kinda' pissed.

[Simply Joel]

http://www.arborday.org/


I see Sonn Bono got passing recognition.... so hey, plant a tree for the Michael Kennedys of the world... yeah, that is right... combine two dangerous sports (football and snow skiing), then die playing it, and we will plant a tree in your honor.

[buckethead alien]

the Kyoto agreement would have gutted America's industrial base

Industrial base?

What century are we talking about here?

cite: http://www.economist.com/countries/USA/ ... 0Structure

The US has one of the most advanced economies in the world and leads the way in the information technology revolution and in many other areas of technical innovation. Its manufacturing base accounted for around 14% of GDP in 2001 (down from over 17% in the mid-1990s)

. . .

Services accounted for 55.7% of GDP in 2002, up from 54.9% in 2001, with distributive trades, real estate, transport, finance, healthcare and business services being the most important.