>> Right now, as I understand the number of trees on the planet is still
>> dropping regularly, I find it really hard to think of that as a really great
>> idea to be pursuing just yet.
>
> Why should the grand total be the criterion? Mowing popples for
> particle board (or paper) has to be a net subtraction, whatever the grand
> total is doing.
The bad idea, as I see it, is precisely that: a business plan that
involves a net subtraction from the amount of trees (not so much in
units, but in photosynthetic capacity) on the planet during a time
when they're already dropping at unacceptable rates.
If you're going out and cutting more trees than you're growing, or
getting rid of the few truly old trees we have left, I can't really
see that as a Good Thing. Even if you justify it as carbon
sequestration; it's the *growing* that's sequestering, and not the
chopping, if I understand things correctly.
If you start planting trees now with an eye towards a sustainable
cutting plan when they're at the appropriate size, I could maybe see
that; though that sounds too far from immediate gratification to be a
popular plan.
The operation you described sounds basically net zero, if they mow
only what they plant.
I just, you know, wanna keep being able to breathe long enough to
solve the carbon issue, ;-), so any plan right now involving less
trees sounds counter-productive.
>> Then the argument that "without copyright, and people being granted
>> practically unlimited and indefinite monopolies on certain work,
>> nobody would produce those works" would be demonstrably false.
>
> Straw man. Question is how the poets & playwrights would eat, while
> still working full time on their writings.
There are many questions, f'rinstance:
How many poets & playwrights *are* eating, while still working full
time on their writings, right now?
How would copyright law reform affect that?
> --
> Beartooth the Stubborn, Sclerotic Squirreler
> Death is not evil. Suffering is evil.
Simón
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