OP:
You've got it all backwards.
Mature trees actually leak more carbon into the atmosphere than they remove.
Young, growing trees are excellent at removing carbon and turning it into wood.
Trees are carbon storage devices. Trees are a crop meant to be harvested.
No one says "Save The Corn!!" now do they?
The alleged carbon imbalance can be cured in short order if we harvest all the mature trees on the planet and replant as we go.
The answer is to use more forest products, paper packaging, books, etc, and less electricity.
Turn your computer off and read a book, it's better for the environment if you are so convicted.
The statement that companies make "We're GREEN because we send out all our statements electronically" is a massive lie.
All they are doing is transferring the cost of doing business to the consumer.
What is worse for the environment? An efficient printing press producing 100,000 statements or 100,000 customers firing up their PC's and ink jet printers and printing one sheet....
Interesting reading:
http://www.greenspirit.com/trees_answer.cfm?msid=30&page=1I believe that most of the current environmental movement trend is about governments taxing and enslaving the populance, and not about actually doing anything positive for the planet.
Go ahead and buy as many guitars as you can. Every tree harvested makes room for a carbon sucking sapling. You're doing more harm the planet by NOT buying guitars.
