Is Berlin a third world example of forest liquidation?

Sometimes it amazes me how important this little northern NH city is when it comes to world wide discussions pertinent to global warming, and the push towards green energy in efforts to keep our world from falling apart.

The recent Copenhagen climate change summit meeting is in the news a lot these days and today it reached the Berlin Daily Sun. For our children's sake, I'd suggest everyone read the New York times article on page 4 and 5 of the link below entitled "Clear Cutting the Truth about Trees" very very carefully. Our world leaders are meeting to discuss the very issues that plague our north country with liquidation harvesting over the years and the importance of well managed forests and the key word to our very survival being "forest sustainability". Anyone who tells you that there is plenty of wood to go around amidst numerous wood studies that show otherwise is really risking a great deal in the following quote from this article.

"This is horrifying. The world’s forests are
a key to our survival, and that of millions of
other species. Not only are they critical to
providing us with building material, paper,
food, recreation and oxygen, they also ground
us spiritually and connect us to our primal
past. Never before in earth’s history have
our forests been under such attack. And the
global-warming folks at Copenhagen seem
oblivious, buying into the corporate view of
forests as an exploitable resource"

As the holidays are a time of giving, let's remember that we gave birth to our children and need to plan for their survival going into the future. If anyone ever refers to you as a tree hugger, smile and wish them a happy new year. Clearly all of us need to understand the value of the forest as there is a world of corporate greed acting against our children's future and it is our responsibility to understand we don't own the land we walk on, we simply borrow it from our children. With care, our children will enjoy many more happy holidays after we're gone.

http://www.laconiadailysun.com/BerlinPDF/2009/12/22B.pdf