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2005-06-14 Down Under

Kyoto forests row erupts (in New Zealand)

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Posted by phil_b 2005-06-14 01:17|| || Front Page|| [11127 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Maybe they should plant rubber trees and everything will bounce back into place!

Posted by Shomble Shoger7533 2005-06-14 02:12|| 2005-06-14 02:12|| Front Page Top

#2 "33 million tonnes of surplus carbon dioxide credits"

This gives me the same gobsmacked feeling I got when I first read there was going to be trading in stock index futures.

There is no there, there.

Hey, might as well bet on the rise & fall of the odds of catching farts and painting them green.

Hmmm. Come to think of it, that's exactly what they're doing.

Posted by .com 2005-06-14 02:35|| 2005-06-14 02:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Plant trees in Israel and in the U.S. Or organize something on your own -- when we lived in Germany, the local American Women's Club spent a lovely Saturday planting trees on a nearby capped-off garbage dump. Why the New Zealanders are waiting for their government to take care of things is beyond me.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-06-14 05:00|| 2005-06-14 05:00|| Front Page Top

#4 Sorry. The Israel link is www.jnf.org. In my enthusiasm I managed to miss the single quotes that add the Rantburg address to it.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-06-14 05:02|| 2005-06-14 05:02|| Front Page Top

#5 ...Can you say, "the law of unintended consquences'? I knew you could.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2005-06-14 07:25|| 2005-06-14 07:25|| Front Page Top

#6 Why the New Zealanders are waiting for their government to take care of things is beyond me.
Because, sadly, that's what you do in a socialized state.

Posted by Steve ">Steve 2005-06-14 08:20|| 2005-06-14 08:20|| Front Page Top

#7 they cut most of their trees down along time ago and are only now getting patches of them replanted, its still pretty patchy though, not at all like the western USA

Posted by bk 2005-06-14 09:57|| 2005-06-14 09:57|| Front Page Top

#8 so Haiti's wayyyyyy ahead in the deforestation game

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-06-14 10:20|| 2005-06-14 10:20|| Front Page Top

#9 New Zealand has gotten their Govt more f*cked up in a given time than any other nation on earth. That's multilateralism for ya, they rush to approve the Kyoto so much nobody even read the thing from front to back.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2005-06-14 11:47|| 2005-06-14 11:47|| Front Page Top

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