Recycling is Bad?

Gar Lipow lipowg at sprintmail.com
Mon Jan 20 10:32:02 PST 2003


On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 05:33:40 "Kevin Robert Dean" <qualiall at union.org.za> forwarded:
>
> Greens are barking up the wrong tree
>
> SANDY YOUNG IAN JOHNSTON
>
>
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> Leading authorities on Scotland’s forests are suggesting
> that recycling paper can be bad for trees.
>
> They argue that using recycled paper reduces the demand for
> properly managed, sustainable forests, and could put their
> entire future at risk. And in another swipe at the green
> lobby, they suggest recycling has more to do with corporate
> PR than saving the Earth.
>
> Dr Bob McIntosh, chief executive of Forest Enterprise,
> which manages the Forestry Commission’s woodlands, said it
> was time to question the "implicit assumption" that
> recycling was a good thing.
>
> McIntosh, who has a PhD in ecology, said recycled paper was
> competing with paper made from forests which are managed in
> an environmentally friendly way and replanted rather than
> simply clear-felled.
>
> He said: "Sustainable, responsible forest management
> requires a market for the timber. If you are replacing that
> with recycled paper, you are removing some of the financial
> incentive for people to be able to manage their forests
> responsibly.
>
> Full:
> http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=70622003
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>

This is such a right wing cliche, calling for a cliched (because so often repeated) answer, I won't bother with a full reply, instead I will simply post key words with "Yada"s for readers to mentally replace with the approriate argumente.

Old growth vs. 2nd growth ... Yada Yada Yada... Carbon sequestration .... Yada Yada Yada... Species diversity... Yada Yada Yada... Tree farming... Yada Yada Yada... Watersheds ... Yada Yada Yada... Market failure ... Yada Yada Yada.... Politically influenced by forestry industry .... Yada Yada Yada...


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