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This message has hereby been proudly deemed racism and bigotry free by the Great and Honorable Coalition Against Racism

It is a shame that your coalition does not remove rudeness, impertincance and does not imput decency and common respect.

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I just trow those kind of words in to spice up my arguement and show people how inferior I think you opinion is.

Hey that's an awesome idea, you foolish fool who partakes in tomfoolery. I hope you don't soil your ascot, you dainty little devil you.

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Originally posted by marine16:
I just trow those kind of words in to spice up my arguement and show people how inferior I think you opinion is.

How can opinions be inferior? IMO it's a weak attempt to put down the opponent when you cannot debate with facts.

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What's the need for 'you fool'?

Because you lack the abil9ity to realize that nobody is talking about cutting every tree down on the planet you fool.

I just trow those kind of words in to spice up my arguement and show people how inferior I think you opinion is.

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No one is talking of cutting every tree down on the planet, you fool.

What's the need for 'you fool'? Can you not defend your argument without use of names?

I find it interesting goleafs that your constitution is clearly quite weak if you become ill at someone telling you not to cut down trees. I would go and get some decent medicine.

Oxygen is not the only issue with cutting down trees. They hold a huge percentage of carbon in them, so if you cut them down and burn them, you are effecting the climate.

Also, when you cut down trees, places lose thier beauty. When people imagine a beautiful place, it is often not a place where every tree and living plant has been cut up and made into what might be very fasionable paper and furniture.

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Guess what creates this great stuff called oxygen? They are brown and green and have leaves, and are called TREES! They make the oxygen for us to breathe.

Thats funny, I though all plants created oxygen.

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Sure houses and furniture and paper is important...but is it really that important if we're all dead?

No one is talking of cutting every tree down on the planet, you fool. And yes, I would say houses are very important.

activista,

we all know the benefits of trees. none of us is saying we deforest the whole planet.

but there is a point where we can use trees to our benefit (other than O2)

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There are more trees today than there were 100 yrs ago. Look at pictures from then and compare them to pictures from now.

In what area? Haiti has experienced so much deforestation that many of the people there are forced to live knee deep in mud when it rains and much of their freshwater supply has been contaminated by mudslides.

HAHA YOU"VE REALLY DONE IT NOW!!! I CANNOT BELIEVE WHAT I AM READING!! I have never read such stupidity!!!

alright I'm gonna break it down at Elementary level, since that seem to be where you intelligence is at...

Humans need oxygen to breathe. We have these things on our faces called noses that suck fresh oxygen in so our lungs can be filled and we can get oxygen into our blood stream to keep everything inside us (stuff called organs) functioning so that we do not DIE.

Guess what creates this great stuff called oxygen? They are brown and green and have leaves, and are called TREES! They make the oxygen for us to breathe. THey do other countless things too, helpful things that we need in order to live, but I dont want to overload your seemingly small brain with that stuff just yet.

If you cut down trees guess what happens? NO MORE OXYGEN..what will our noses suck in? How will our organs function? Well they wont so byebye humans.

Now If you insist on cutting down all the trees, Be my guest, but dont blame me when you try using your nose and find yourself with nothing to breathe in. Dont blame me when you die (and all animals and humans) just to make something out of a tree.

Sure houses and furniture and paper is important...but is it really that important if we're all dead?

Haha Bushsupporter you are veryvery wrong, there are wayyy less trees now than there used to be...believe it or not there used to be forests covering our world, not cities and concrete and ugly buildings and roads. There used to be nature. now there are few preserved forests, and so much logging that the trees are having a hard time producing fast enough to catch up.

On top of keeping us ALIVE"
Trees add beauty and give character to communities.
Trees reduce heating and cooling costs.
Trees protect us from dangerous ultraviolet radiation.
Trees prevent both wind and water erosion.
Trees increase the value of real estate.
Trees reduce noise, dust and air pollution.
Trees benefit wildlife, animals.
Trees reduce noise pollution.
Trees have historical value.
For more you can read this: What Trees DO

I surely hope that you learn the value of trees so you do not ruin this world for the rest of us.

There are more trees today than there were 100 yrs ago. Look at pictures from then and compare them to pictures from now.

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So do wooden retaining walls

Can these walls hold back billions of tons of land? Does everyone in the world have access to these walls? In the Phillipines where illegal logging is common, much of the land that has been cleared of trees turns into nothing but mud when it rains, and native people are forced to move because of it. And when they move, they're usually shot and killed. There's a documentary about it. I can't remember the name of it right now.

You conservatives really need to realize that the Earth is indeed in a delicate balance. If you cut down a forest to decorate your ugly houses, the animals that live in those trees die, the animals that eat the animals that live in the trees suffer and their population goes down. Lets assume the animals that eat the animals in the trees are large predators like snakes or wild cats. When their population goes down, rodent populations would go up, and farmers who live near cut forests would lose much of their crop. Also if you cut down a forest near a body of water like a river or a lake, the land would fall into the water which would alter the pH levels and the mineral balance in the water, causing fish and other aquatic life to die. The poeple and animals that rely on these fish to survive, end up suffering.

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Trees secure the earth to prevent landslides.

So do wooden retaining walls

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Trees provide shade.

So do houses

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Trees are food for many animals

Animals are food for me. SO if I have to stop cutting down trees to kill and eat animals than I'll have to do it.

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Trees provide oxygen for our breathing.

Trees secure the earth to prevent landslides.

Trees provide shade.

Trees are food for many animals.

Trees are also beautiful.

Trees provide energy.

Trees make homes.

Trees make paper.

Trees make desks and other valuable furniture.

Trees make fine decorations.

Thats my "good steward" statemnt for the day.

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Who ever said that what is hippie is necessarily wrong?

Hippies defecated all over my grandfather's cabin in Wisconsin.

didn't mean it in that context.

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That aint hippie--it's true.

Who ever said that what is hippie is necessarily wrong?

Bushism of the day:
"It seemed like to me they based some of their decisions on the word of — and the allegations — by people who were held in detention, people who hate America, people that had been trained in some instances to disassemble — that means not tell the truth." —George W. Bush, on an Amnesty International report on prisoner abuse at Guantanamo Bay, Washington, D.C., May 31, 2005

See the 8th Undeniable Truth:

"The most beautiful thing about a tree is what you do with it after you cut it down."

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its not bad, so long as you dont do it in excess.

Then again, everything in moderation is good.

Replant trees, just don't destroy a whole forest. It ruins the species living in the area and changes the whole enviornment. Also, more flooding occurs and...

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First of all, seeing treeless neighborhoods makes me sick b/c it looks ugly.

Very true.

That aint hippie--it's true.