Wilkins ice shelf breaking away?

however, from a biodiversity/natural habitat point of view, those forests you refer to are plantations just like any other homogenous crop and as such support a vastly reduced range and amount of life. yes there are more trees but at the expense of the low-density, high diversity natural forest/scrub/whatever that was dug up to plant them.

I am aware of this argument. It has a lot of merit. Sustainable forestry is still farming, with all the downsides that farming entails. But like farming, it's sustainable enough to become a way of life for centuries. It's the least worst solution perhaps.

I wonder if paper can be recycled into mulch or composted rather than made into more, worse paper. Of course that depends on the chemicals that have been used to make it, but it's a question worth asking.

I don't see why councils can't take our rubbish and use it to fuel power stations. I know there are a couple already, but NIMBYs seem to prevent new ones being built. We generate too much crap, and we are facing an energy shortage. Surely it's the obvious solution to both problems. Most of what we produce was made from wood or oil, both of which are perfectly good fuels. If you can control the pollution (and I presume you can) then what's the problem?