According to Canadian sources, Canada has:
- 990 million acres of forests,
- 370 million acres of wetlands and
- 167 million acres of crop-yielding farmland
These are known as "carbon sinks". I.e. :- they absorb carbon.
Biologists tell us that trees absorb about 2.6 tones
of carbon per acre .
So if you do the math 990 million acres x 2.6
tones/acre=2.574 billion tons of carbon being absorbed every year here in
Canada.
Now if you do more math: 36 trillion tones (amount of
world emission x 0.0167 (1.67%)=601.2 million tones - this is the amount of
carbon that Canada contributes to world emissions - in the forests alone,
Canada absorbs almost 4 times the amount of carbon it emits.
AGAIN :-- In the forests alone, Canada
absorbs four times the carbon it emits.
This means that the other three quarters of our
forests are being sustained by carbon being emitted by the rest of the world.
This calculation does not take into account the
wetland or farmland that also absorbs carbon.
Canada really couldn't get any greener, so why are our
politicians hell bent on punishing us with these ridiculous carbon taxes?
If the media were honest, this information would be
made public. SHOULD BE MADE PUBLIC !
Considering the fact that Canada is given no credit
for absorbing much more carbon than it emits I think there is a good case for
some lawyer to charge governments with a “class action suit “
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Thank you to my swim buddy Bob for sending this along.
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