seattle.politics

Lobby Dosser < @ > wrote:

> usenet@ (Paul Mitchum) wrote:
>
> > Lobby Dosser < @ > wrote:
> >
> >> Mitchell Holman wrote:
> >> > @ wrote in
> >> > news: @ :
> > [..]
> >> >> The problem being, obviously, there are more trees now than at the
> >> >> time of Columbus.
> >> >
> >> > Some of can remember when Reagan trotted out that line - and
> >> > howls
> >> > of laughter that followed.
> >>
> >> Then some of us are suffering from memory loss. "that line" is not
> >> what Reagan said.
> >
> > One thing he said was this: ""The American Petroleum Institute filed
> > suit against the EPA [and] charged that the agency was suppressing a
> > scientific study for fear it might be misinterpreted ... The
> > suppressed study reveals that 80 percent of air pollution comes not
> > from chimneys and auto exhaust pipes, but from plants and trees." --
> > Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan, in 1979
> >
> > And *that* drew a laugh. As it should.
>
> Correct. And it turns out there is some truth to the statement.

Yeah, but the rational conclusion, based on that truth, is that we
shouldn't cut down old-growth forests and replace them with young trees.

No wonder it was shelved.

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