Banging on about an environmental activist from 1996 and then completely missing the point about an experiment to capture carbon. Daniel Jupp illustrates what happens when you write about something you don’t understand without doing any research.
Presumably the last time Daniel Jupp paid any attention to environmental matters was when the activist Swampy was making life difficult for the builders trying to cut down trees for the Newbury Bypass in 1996. He certainly wastes a lot of column inches padding out his piece in the Country Squire with his recollections of watching it on TV.
He does a good job of putting forward the importance of trees in the environment, although it is copied from a UN report. He does attribute it.
He then loses the plot when he refers to an experiment by Kodama Systems to prevent the carbon captured by trees from re-entering the atmosphere for at least one thousand years. Essentially this is taking tree material and sealing it underground in a dry area so that decay is impeded and consequently the CO2 locked up in the timber doesn’t get released to the atmosphere. Carbon capture.
Mr Jupp refers to the study cutting down 70 million acres of trees. Presumably his research source was some outraged pizza delivery driver on YouTube, because this is wrong. The reality is the U.S. Forest Service has a ten-year plan to reduce the risk of wildfires through a combination of controlled burns, selective tree culls and other forest management strategies. Kodama Systems is proposing to help thin out California’s densely packed forests and take the timber to Nevada and seal it underground. More RELIABLE information is available
As he presumably does his research on YouTube he has picked up the childish ‘Gates is evil’ mantra. In his article he mentions the Gates contribution to the Kodama Systems project as being $6.6.million, and then asks why not $6.66 million? Really. How old are you? 12? As he has limited knowledge he would not know that the ‘Number of the Beast’ is actually 616.
Having completely misunderstood the proposed experiment he then adds a hysterical flourish that ‘Green’ now means chopping down all the trees, and Bill Gates is ordering it. He is one of several organisations providing funding it and has not ordered it. It’s this naive misunderstanding of how these projects get proposed and funded that is at the heart of many pointless memes created to amuse the feeble minded.
The only thing that he did get right was Swampy’s real name – Daniel Marc Hooper, so well done Mr Jupp.
Perhaps Mr Jupp should learn how to check information from reliable sources rather than relying on YouTube.
Hopefully Country Squire didn’t pay him for this woeful word salad.