Thread: Global Warming: Destruction of Australias Forests

Originally Posted by astrid

what I dont understand is why Gunns need to clearfell and pulp old growth timber in tas when there is so much plantatoin pine grown in vic and i assume elsewhere,
surly it makes better sense to judicially cut high value old growth timber to sell as premium manufacturing timber, than to go to the expence of felling this stuff for pulp.
The plantation stuff is much easier to get to and transport?

Astrid

Let's just say I know a few thing's about pulp and pulpmill's . You cant make eucy pulp from pine tree's , you need eucy tree's and yes there is a big difference between eucy pulp and pine pulp , each product is used for many purpose's in the manufacturing of tissue and dunny paper . One thing the greenie's dont tell anyone , is the fact that sawmilling a log leave's you with around 60% of the log as waste , so what do you do with the waste , turn it into chip's for pulp . But the pulpmill bloke's dont tell a lot of thing's either , such as the amount of water they use , one mob used 70meg a day , also a lot of old growth tree's are no good for timber prossesing , just pulp . Then there is the pulpmill waste , prosessing the chip's , either cooking or grinding , then bleaching , washing and so on and lot's of realy nice chemical's used . Cheer's MM

Len McCarthy ....... I beleive it is way too late already , population alone is our biggest problem , then getting everyone to do the right thing , forget it , it's not going to happen , many poor people cant even afford to do the right thing , they are busy just trying to staying alive , as for rich country's helping the poor one's , dream on I say , there is just too much resistance , too many flat earth people on both side's of the argument , for or against global warming and then there are all the people around my age not old or young 47 , I heard it all before , ???? I have only got on average 30 year's left to live , what do I care what happen's after that . We needed to start a hundred year's ago , you could imagine what they would have thought back then , if anyone mentioned global warming back then , off to the loony farm with you , not much has changed even now , rich people still control the world . Cheer's MM

Originally Posted by Master Splinter

the growth rate has dropped some 10% over the last 20 years, and is actually negative in most of central Europe.

Of course the population in central Europe is falling. They are all moving to ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, and WALES!!!!