Design 21: Social Design Network

It might not always apply but I agree with your general comment that these forests should not have been submerged in the first place. We still face the fact that they are. We have a choice to either let them rot and produce massive amounts of carbon gases, or we prevent that and cut them before they do more harm. I think that this solution is the better of the two. You seem to like analogies, so…should we not try to safe oil covered birds simply because we should not transport oil in these kind of quantities in single hull vessels in the first place? I do not think so. By the way, it is not because beavers are animals that they always do the right environmental thing. I have a family of beavers as neighbours and it happens that we wake up in the morning with up to 40 trees cut by those neighbours. I can assure you that most of it is just for the pleasure of chewing up wood. They leave it their and will never use it. We should not think about ourselves as being outside of nature nor should we ignore that some natural phenomena and animals can be very destructive…