In article , xtremegreen wrote:
On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 17:37:47 +1000, Prudence wrote:

Indeed, retrain them for new and exciting Tassie industries
like whaling, or innovative products like tuna free dolphin
meat.

Fishfarming is a BIG industry in Tasmania. Trees make oxygen and you have
to have it. No more attacking your life support system Prudence or you'll
end up like Tony Abbott.

Trees aren't the only things that "make" oxygen. (Well at least make
it available in molecular form.)

It could well be argued that a paddock of dense growth of weeds
and/or grasses would make more nett oxygen available to the poor
bloody dependent animals like us, than an equivalent area of trees.
(And it would be interesting to compare the figures for regrowth
forest versus "old growth" in this sense.)



Cheers, Phred.

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