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Without  forests we lose shade, water retention, a natural precipitation cycle, fish, birds, a rich diversity of life and most of all our largest carbon sink on earth. By farming or harvesting our forests we significantly impact and invite fire fuel vegetation, especially scotch broom, and other invasives along with weaker immature nursery grown trees which ultimately leads to heat baked deserts. Forests takes centuries to mature into a state of healthy balance. We do have solutions to replace our growing demands of raw resources. With such a large biodiversity on this  very rare planet of complex life we can be farming the annual crop of hemp or using more bamboo to replace the countless products that this human centric species consumes. Unfortunately, we humans are the most invasive species on earth.

Loretta Huston

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I'm surprised that not a word is spoken of how GM went out of it's way to destroy the Superb EV1 All Electric Vehicle it created and leased in 1998. California put out a mandate in 1990 that all car dealers had to sell a certain percentage per year of 0 emission vehicles. Stan Ovshinsky, a brilliant physicist and visionary who led the way with solar and battery technology sold GM his battery technology, which Chevron bought and buried. The point is, The OIL GIANT along with the American Auto Giants refused to cooperate and once again out of Denial and "Controlling Monopolized Interest" we are not prepared to face the greatest crisis of all, Environmental and Economic Disaster. With the current Global energy demands and technological potential we could be driving solarized electric vehicles today that could get 120-300 miles/charge. We have made light year advancements with space technology and electronics to still be pecking around for prehistoric fossil fuels for our growing "energy demands". Every other solution is only a temporary compromise of which we are rapidly running out of time and money to make the very best decisions. Proactive behavior is far less costly than reactive urgency. With the evolutionary process, what was once strong and alive must die in order for a fresh progressive vision to take the lead. The time has come to cut the "life support" aid from this outdated monopoly to allow fresh innovation to take it's place. As always, we must have collective faith if we are to survive this global/planetary paradigm shift.

Loretta Huston Mon. June 1st 2009

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