Forests and Climate Change

from Facts Against Myths Newsletter, Vikas Adhyayan Kendra, Mumbai. 01 Feb 2007

“There can surely be no harm in planting trees!?"

But it is pertinent to point out the distinctions! Planting and maintaining an orchard or community woodland, creating village forest belts, planting trees along highways, planting saplings into a garden, is one thing. The global project of carbon "offset" forestry is quite another. The trend it represents is not only harmless. It is dangerous - dangerous for equity, for democratic politics, for soil, for trees, for forests, for climatic habitability itself.