EARTH'S FORESTS PROVE THE DOOMSAYERS WRONG YET AGAIN

     Today's The Scotsman reports:

FEARS of a "skinhead" Earth devoid of any trees appear to be unfounded, according to new research which shows forests making a comeback in China and India.

An international team of scientists, including Aberdeen University academic Professor Alexander Mather, found that 22 out of the world's 50 most forested countries were now increasing the amount of woodland and predicted that a "great restoration of the landscape" could begin by 2050.

While global forests are still in decline, China, Vietnam and Spain have seen significant net increases from 1990 to 2005 and India's forests are now stable.

     But how can this be?  Almost all we ever hear is that we-- humans, particularly capitalist indsutrialized humans-- are destroying the ozone layer, the oceans, the mountains and, yes, the forests.  And yet here we have a report that the most rapidly industrializing country on earth-China- has seen a "signficant net increase.." in its forests.

     History teaches us that, as far back as Copernicus, the wisdom of every era is subject to challenge when future generations look back.  Thirty-some years ago, a Saudi Arabian official predicted that the world would run out of oil by the turn of the century.  No doubt readers can recall other dire predictions about the end of the food supply as the world's population increased beyond manageable proportions.  These prophets of doom turned out to be wrong. 

     If the forests are any indciation, the prophets of doom are wrong yet again.

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