TUC Radio - Protecting the Forests of the World – Professor William Moomaw and Stuart Scott
Prof. Moomaw wrote in 2021: Humanity puts out 11 billion tons of carbon
each year – amazingly less than half ends up in the atmosphere. NASA
satellite data and research show that a bit more than half of the
remaining 6 billion tons of carbon are going into forests, plants,
wetlands and soils. The other 40 – 45% is being absorbed by the oceans.
However the extraordinary capacity of forests to absorb carbon is being
undermined by world-wide logging and clear-cutting – which ironically
turns forests, that could be our best protection from climate disaster –
into yet another powerful source of greenhouse gases.
William Moomaw is Professor Emeritus of International Environmental
Policy at Tufts University. Stuart Scott was founder/executive producer
of Facing Future TV.