On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:44:49 -0000, Don H3 wrote:

This may be in the same vein as the Reagan
(Governator of California, then President of US)
administration asserting that "trees" were
responsible for "air pollution".

It was probably from James Watt, a religion nutcase whose idea of ecological
conservation was to loot the environment for all it was worth while waiting
for the second coming of jeezuz.

The statement went along the lines that a forest rotting produced as much
polution as one being burned. Clear the idiot didn't understand that forests
take carbon from the air while growing and that it isn't cumulative.