Trees….
- Posted on 18th December, 07
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In a world where we can build huge multi-storey buildings within months rather than years and we can create transport networks which cover the whole planet, I find trees retain an incredible integrity. A huge majestic tree is not something which you can build or create, it will grow in its own way, in it’s own time.
If you had all the money in the world it would be nigh on impossible to ‘artificially’ plant a tree on a building site or in a garden. you must be patient and wait for the tree to grow. Once a 300 year old tree is felled we must wait another 300 years to replace it. I respect trees hugely, many have been around in this world longer than we have, and they are alive!
Whilst thinking of trees my thoughts wandered onto the subject of carbon footprinting of goods, and I begun to think about the apple trees that I planted last week. If trees are an overall good thing for CO2, then surely apples, which grow on trees, must have a negative CO2 value? Then I started thinking about other vegetables, and in fact anything that grows that we eat! They all, being plants must take in CO2 in their lifetime… which I thought was a very, very interesting thought!
If we were able to pick local veg ourselves, then surely there would be a POSITIVE impact on the environment….
Interesting thoughts…..
ellen
Yup C02 is a contained with in all carbon based life forms , and is released generally on death . (Coral reefs play a big part on this maintaining balance.
Methane is of course a far larger greenhouse deposit (produced of course mainly by bovine s
), and of course any mass farming production.
All things have their way and method of being , may i refer you to the Tao Te Ching for some rather compatible reading.