I work on this daily in the controversial climate of forestry on a provincial, national and international scale; over 50 years our organization has never lost a battle with governments and the biggest corporations of their kind. I read ignorance of forest dynamics frequently here, of clearcutting particularly. Perceptions can be changed by better information, treating all publics with respect. Take a page from the antis: bashing gets nowhere.
Really King? Not according to this link that tells us the real story:
http://rabble.ca/columnists/2009/11/future-forestry-nova-scotiaBut most interesting is the part of the story from the rival Nova Scotia Woodlot Owners and Operators Association which does not see widespread clearcutting and taking saplings as small as 1 1/2" in diameter to feed the ravenous appetite of a 60 megawatt biomass power plant at the New Page Pulp Mill at the NewPage pulp mill at Port Hawkesbury as environmentally responsible, "FSC certification or not." Read about what amounts to a unionized effort to do short rotation clear-cutting with a huge carbon footprint. There's worse slash and burn type forestry practices going on, but this doesn't sound very sustainable and sure isn't returning the Nova Scotia forests to Acadian pre-European old growth timberlands. But hey, even an old communist needs to make a living!
King also observes that "bashing gets nowhere", yet the anti-gunners and anti-lead forces have bashed us for decades. And doesn't Mr. Perfect himself routinely bash such things as Donald Trump, Conservatism, the NRA, George Bush, Republicans, the 2nd Amendment, etc., etc....???... Well, you get the picture.
Ever wonder where I get the opinion that this old fraud is the biggest fraud and hypocrite to ever post here? Want to get a big fat zero response? Just ask King what he ever did personally to help reverse the Canadian Long Gun Registry. And what a joke to see him now pretending to support the use of lead ammunition after spending so much time bashing that in the past too. Brown and Brown---, this pair is so full of shit their eyes are brown.
