Losing Nature's Services

October 30, 2006:
With a rending “crack”, a mature tree falls victim to the trackhoe, and with it, the loss to nature’s services of about one ton of carbon dioxide absorption over the lifetime of that one tree. R.I.P. old friend.
See: http://www.climatecrisis.net/takeaction/whatyoucando/index3.html

So far, this development is already causing a carbon debt to Planet Earth from the burning of the diesel fuel and gasoline (28 pounds of carbon dioxide emitted per gallon of diesel and gas burned) in two bulldozers, a trackhoe, several dump trucks, plus the vehicles the workers are using to get to and from the site. Plus, a number of trees are falling by the hour. It is a debt that will not be repaid. How short sighted can humanity get?