Skog ska bli grön energi för det har EU bestämt. Då skogarna i Europa är för sårbara har man köpt trä från andra kontinenter vilket bland annat lett till att nordamerikanska skogar riskerar att skövlas. Så varje gång du tankar din gröna diesel, sanktionerad av bland andra Miljöpartiet, kan det vara resultatet av ett massmord begånget på en annan kontinent.
Vi kan nog inte förstöra planeten men vi kan förstöra för oss själva. Naturen återhämtar sej men gör vi det? Tänk på det Michael Crichton skrev i Urtidsparken (Jurassic Park) om vad människan kan göra mot planeten och vad som kan hända då. Jag bifogar det längst ner här.
"You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. Let me
tell you about our planet. Earth is four-and-a-half-billion-years-old.
There's been life on it for nearly that long, 3.8 billion years.
Bacteria first; later the first multicellular life, then the first
complex creatures in the sea, on the land. Then finally the great
sweeping ages of animals, the amphibians, the dinosaurs, at last the
mammals, each one enduring millions on millions of years, great
dynasties of creatures rising, flourishing, dying away -- all this
against a background of continuous and violent upheaval. Mountain ranges
thrust up, eroded away, cometary impacts, volcano eruptions, oceans
rising and falling, whole continents moving, an endless, constant,
violent change, colliding, buckling to make mountains over millions of
years. Earth has survived everything in its time. It will certainly
survive us. If all the nuclear weapons in the world went off at once and
all the plants, all the animals died and the earth was sizzling hot for
a hundred thousand years, life would survive, somewhere: under the
soil, frozen in Arctic ice. Sooner or later, when the planet was no
longer inhospitable, life would spread again. The evolutionary process
would begin again. It might take a few billion years for life to regain
its present variety. Of course, it would be very different from what it
is now, but the earth would survive our folly, only we would not. If the
ozone layer gets thinner, ultraviolet radiation sears the earth, so
what? Ultraviolet radiation is good for life. It's powerful energy. It
promotes mutation, change. Many forms of life will thrive with more UV
radiation. Many others will die out. Do you think this is the first time
that's happened? Think about oxygen. Necessary for life now, but oxygen
is actually a metabolic poison, a corrosive glass, like fluorine. When
oxygen was first produced as a waste product by certain plant cells some
three billion years ago, it created a crisis for all other life on
earth. Those plants were polluting the environment, exhaling a lethal
gas. Earth eventually had an atmosphere incompatible with life.
Nevertheless, life on earth took care of itself. In the thinking of the
human being a hundred years is a long time. A hundred years ago we
didn't have cars, airplanes, computers or vaccines. It was a whole
different world, but to the earth, a hundred years is nothing. A million
years is nothing. This planet lives and breathes on a much vaster
scale. We can't imagine its slow and powerful rhythms, and we haven't
got the humility to try. We've been residents here for the blink of an
eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us."
