<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="color: rgb(10, 35, 54); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px;"><b class="">Excerpt :</b> In 2007, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published an article by Andrei P. Kirilenko and Roger A. Sedjo. </span><a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/104/50/19697.full.pdf" target="_blank" class="" style="outline: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; color: rgb(169, 0, 40); text-decoration: none; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px;">These authors focused solely on climate change impact on commercial forestry</a><span class="" style="color: rgb(10, 35, 54); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px;">. In a review of 75 studies of industry’s own risk, they concluded that “even without fires or insect damage, the change in frequency of extreme events, such as strong winds, winter storms, droughts, etc. can bring massive loss to commercial forestry.”</span></span></div><div class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><b class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class=""></b></div><div class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><b class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Logging as a self-endangering industry</b></div><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"></span><div class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In an ironic twist, the logging industry may share guilt for creating an emissions problem that comes right back around to endangering the industry itself. There’s evidence already available for testing this simultaneously ecological and economic risk.</span></div><div class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">By 2008, Forest Ecology and Management could publish findings that “… a 'no timber harvest' scenario eliminating harvests on public lands would result in an annual increase of 17-29 million metric tonnes of carbon (MMTC) per year between 2010 and 2050,” referring to how much carbon would be kept in the forest.</span></div><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"></span><div class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In 2012, Global Change Biology-Bioenergy could confirm that trend with findings that, “When the most realistic assumptions are used and a carbon-cycle model is applied, <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gcbb.12015" class="" style="outline: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; text-decoration: none;">an increased harvest level in forests leads to a permanent increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration</a>.” </span></div><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"></span><div class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A 2017 study determined that “…CO2 emissions from land-use change have been substantially underestimated because processes such as tree harvesting and land clearing from shifting cultivation have not been considered.” In 2018, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published an analysis of Oregon’s logging industry. The gist of the study is that the logging industry <a href="https://sustainable-economy.org/osu-research-confirms-big-timber-leading-source-greenhouse-gas-emissions-oregon" class="" style="outline: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; text-decoration: none;">is the leading source of CO2 emissions in that state</a>. </span></div><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"></span><div class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The logging industry might prefer that the fossil fuel industry shoulder all the blame for forests’ exposure to climate risk. That won’t wash.</span></div><div class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><<</span><a href="http://mountainjournal.org/climate-change-has-caught-humanity-in-a-trap" class="">http://mountainjournal.org/climate-change-has-caught-humanity-in-a-trap</a><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); letter-spacing: 0.36px;">>></span></div><div class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); letter-spacing: 0.36px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); letter-spacing: 0.36px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="">
<div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">——————————————————————————</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">PNAS first published November 7, 2019.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1917051116" class="">https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1917051116</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 90, 150); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 90, 150); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/11/06/1917051116" class=""><b class="">Lasting coastal hazards from past greenhouse gas emissions</b></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Tony E. Wong</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22.5px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">The emission of greenhouse gases into Earth’s atmosphere is a by-product of </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""><b class="">modern marvels such as</b> </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">the production of vast amounts of energy, heating and cooling inhospitable environments to be amenable to human existence, and traveling great distances faster than our saddle-sore ancestors ever dreamed possible. However,</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""><b class=""> these luxuries </b>come at a price: climate changes in the form of severe droughts, extreme precipitation and temperatures, increased frequency of flooding in coastal cities, global warming, and sea-level rise (</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">1, 2). </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22.5px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">This is <b class="">the price we pay for</b> the<b class=""> luxury</b> of about 200 y of relatively unchecked greenhouse gas emissions.</span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">—————————————————————————————————</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-05-20/from-energy-transition-to-energy-reduction/" class=""><b class="">From Energy Transition to Energy Reduction</b></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class="">By Chris Smaje</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">My request to those working in the renewable energy industry is to ask themselves before undertaking any new project: “</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">Will this help people to live a lower energy lifestyle than they previously did?</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">” – which, regrettably, is not something we can say of the low carbon energy installed globally to date. If they can’t answer yes to the question, I’d request they dump the project and seek another one. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">It’s urgent.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class=""><<<a href="https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-05-20/from-energy-transition-to-energy-reduction/" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class="">https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-05-20/from-energy-transition-to-energy-reduction/</span></a>>></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">——————————————————————————</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">It's too easy to blame the corporations for the climate crisis, when we subsidize them every time we buy what they’re selling. Corporate policy does matter. At the same time, they are totally dependent on their customers. The blame game has become ridiculous.This buck stops everywhere.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><<<a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/06/25/caught-in-a-trap-of-our-own-making-climate-change-blame-and-denial/" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class="">https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/06/25/caught-in-a-trap-of-our-own-making-climate-change-blame-and-denial/</span></a>>></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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