NationStates Jolt Archive


PROPOSED: Portional Woodchip Return

Skinnydippers
30-09-2005, 19:37
Category: Environmental
Industry Affected: Woodchipping
Proposed by: The Rogue Nation of Skinnydippers

Description: For the purposes of this proposal, "nature" shall be defined as the state of an ecosystem that is unaffected by man kind, whether directly or indirectly.
This region, finding that in nature the nutrients in a tree continue to benefit the surrounding area even after the tree's death, hereby proposes that the following steps be taken to promote environmental progress.

One: that companies felling a tree for the purposes of creating woodchips, mulch, and paper be required to return to the area from which the tree was removed a portion of said tree consisting of, as closely as can be determined, five percent of the roots, seven precent of the stem, and seven precent of the crown.

Two: that companies felling a tree for the purposes of creating woodchips, mulch, and paper be required, prior to felling a tree, to determine and record the girth and height, genus and species, and approximate location in latitude and longitude of said tree.

Three: that companies felling a tree for the purposes of creating woodchips, mulch, and paper be required to replant at least four-fifths of the felled land with identical felled trees and allow replanted trees approximately twenty years before being re-felled.

-Written by the The Moon Steppes and submitted by The Rogue Nation of Skinnydippers-

Please support this bill for our ecosystem and the presrvation of future industries and forests.
Befuzinia
30-09-2005, 20:44
Total insanity

This resolution actually says that mankind isn’t part of nature. Which is something that the Incorporated states of Befuzinia (ISB) feels would have a negative impact on its citizen’s self-esteem. Therefore ISB will not under any circumstances support such a resolution.
// Mr Woody Axe VP of "Cut it all down and pave it!" an ISB subsidiary
Neo-Anarchists
30-09-2005, 22:03
A bit of a flaw...
For the purposes of this proposal, "nature" shall be defined as the state of an ecosystem that is unaffected by man kind, whether directly or indirectly.
I disagree with that definition, but that isn't the problem.
The problem is that I sincerely doubt that there is any ecosystem totally unaffected by humans. We eat plants and animals, we farm, we use pesticides, we have released CFCs into the atmosphere at some points, and all sorts of things like that. I would think that all of our combined actions have had a direct or indirect effect on almost anwhere in the world.