Tree Planting vs Nuclear Planting



TREE PLANTING

Mangrove Tree Planting

Because of the benefits that our planet and ourselves get from trees, such as trees being oxygen filters, providing shelter and food for humans as well as other animals and their influence on the climate (to mention a few); it is essential that we make sure we make up for all the trees we loose or use. If performed properly tree planting can ensure the successful restoration of a deforested area, hence creating ecologically sustainable resource use.

Threats and Concerns
By 1997, eighty per cent of the forests that originally covered the Earth have been cleared, fragmented or otherwise degraded. Most of the remaining forest is mostly located in the Amazon Basin, Canada, Central Africa, Southeast Asia and the Russian Federation.

These large blocks of ecologically-intact natural forest are valuable because they are home to indigenous cultures, shelter global biodiversity, provide ecosystem services, store carbon, contribute to local and national economic growth, and meet recreational needs. In spite of this, logging, mining and other large-scale development projects threaten 39 per cent of the remaining natural forests, with those in South and Central America, western North America and the boreal regions of the Russian Federation being most at risk.  [UN Environment Programme]


NUCLEAR PLANTS, according to Nuclear Energy Insitute, are clean, affordable and reliable. 

Clean because they generate heat from fission rather than burning fuel, they produce no greenhouse gases or emissions associated with acid rain or urban smog.

Reliable and affordable. Nuclear power plants can produce say 20.2 percent of U.S. electricity. No other source of electricity can provide the combined benefits of nuclear energy: large amounts of reliable and affordable electricity, long-term price stability and no greenhouse gas emissions.

A US Senator once said, "There is no question that nuclear is going to be part of the solution."  I hope somebody asked her this? Is humanity prepared for more problems nuclear plant poses?  Are we ready for another Fukushima Japan Nuclear Power Plant radiation leak? [photo courtesy of news.yahoo.com]

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