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  • From: Stephen Figgins <stephen@plainscraft.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] trees and CO2
  • Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 00:44:48 -0500


I just recently read the summary of a NASA study that said rainforest deforestation causes little of the rise in global CO2 levels. This totally contradicts everything I've heard before. I don't know of a good source of information on this topic.

In a speach at Kansas University about 15 years ago James Lovelock mentioned this, that the rainforest doesn't produce that much oxygen. He pointed out that it does act to cool the Earth though, and has a large effect on weather patterns. Without it, he cautioned, that the Earth might have a difficult time maintaining our current temperatures and weather conditions which would otherwise fluctuate wildly.

Of course he mainly believes that living things create the conditions that suit them on the Earth - that in this way the earth exhibits homeostasis. Damage enough living systems and the homeostasis will fail.

You might look at his book, The Ages of Gaia, for more information on this.

-Stephen




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