[Pitchfork]

Noice that the good news isn't all that good. The largest areas of untouched wilderness are the Arctic, Antarctica, the Sahara (although not mentioned I suspect the interior of Australia) and the large Tiaga forests of Northern Canada and Siberia. They do mention the Congo and Amazon basins but we know that those areas are under pressure. Conspicuously absent are any non-desert temperate regions. This, of course, is where the wild-life lives. Bio-density in the deserts and conifer forests is not all that high when compared to warmer and wetter climates. But it seems these low productive regiona are all we're going to have left some day. The earth will have lungs like an emphazema (sp?) ridden chain smoker.

[plain talk]

They do mention the Congo and Amazon basins but we know that those areas are under pressure.

Under what pressure? It's friggin' jungle. I don't think they've quite got to the point where there are shopping malls there, have they? I just hope there's always some remnants of jungles to marvel at. Just like I hope there's always a few wacko fringe environmentalists around to laugh at.

[Issaquahking]

You forgot your sarcasm tags. I'm sure thats the case, because no intelligent human being is buying this bunk for a minute. Critical thinking skills of the conservative nature teach us that if it smells like BS then it is...no matter how a dumba$$ knee-jerk, reactionary liberal tries to label it something else.

Perhaps you need to review the definition of "junk science" vs "sound science"?

[SwordofTruth]

The earth will have lungs like an emphazema (sp?) ridden chain smoker.

I see you have bought into the liberal PC claim that we are destroying the environment by cutting down trees and developing areas. This is hogwash! There are more trees in North America today then there was when the pilgrims came over in the Mayflower. Every time we have a storm and lighting starts a forest fire we rush to put it out before it can do much damage. This didn't happen hundreds of years ago. When lighting started a forest fire back then it burned until it ran out of fuel or a rainstorm put it out.

I would say we probably have too many trees in the world today, not too few.