Green spirit by Dr.Moore

1. Green Spirit
TREES are the ANSWER
By: Patrick Moore, Ph.D.

2. About the Author
• Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
• Studied: biology, forestry, genetics, ecology
Patrick Moore, Ph.D

3. About the Author
• Environmental activist
“When majority of people decide they agree with you it is probably time
to stop hitting them with a stick and sit down and talk to them about
finding solutions to our environmental problems”
Patrick Moore, Ph.D
“We all have a
responsibility to be
environmental
stewards. But that
stewardship requires
that science, not
political agendas,
drive our public
policy”

4. Introduction
•Defining sustainable forestry
- Provide the need in ways to reduce negative impact on the
environment – must be socially acceptable
- and technically and
- economically feasible

5. Introduction
•Forestry Industry
Extinction of tens of thousand of species
Deforestation of vast areas of the Earth
Total and irreversible destruction of the ecosystem

6. Arguments
1. Extinction of species
- WWF reported that 50,000 species are going extinct each year due to
commercial logging as main cause (1996 Geneva Conference)
“We do not know a single species that
has become extinct due to forestry”
Three main ways human
caused extinction:
1.Simply killing them
2.Vast clearance of
native forest to
agriculture
3.Introduction of exotic
predators and diseases

7. Extinction of species
Forest destruction

8. Conclusion “Forest Reborn”

9. Extinction of species
• Forest Renewal – Dispersal - Migration
- The sum total of all the individual species returning to the site, each in
turn, the forest grows back

10. The case of volcanic eruption of Mount St. Helens
• 1980 eruption
• 150,000 acres
• Two distinct
jurisdictions

11. Deforestation
• Deforestation to forest industry
• Deforestation
- An ongoing process of continuous human interference, preventing the
forest from growing back, which it would it if was simply left alone
“Deforestation is seldom caused by
forestry, the whole intention of which is to
cause reforestation”

12. Deforestation
Caused of world’s forest loss:
1. Increasing population
2. Intensive agricultural
production
3. Urban densification

13. Irreversible destruction of ecosystem
• “Forestry is the most sustainable of all primary industries and wood is
the most renewable material used to build and maintain our
civilization”
>Environmentally appropriate
substitutes/ Zero cut
- Calling on countries to reduce
the amount of wood they use
- Cut fewer trees, use less wood
(Greenpeace, United Nations Inter-
Governmental Panel on Forests,
Sierra Club, Rainforest Action
Network
>Reduce emission of carbon
- People to switch from non-
renewable energy to renewable
energy
(Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change)

14. Recommendations
1. Permanent protected parks and wilderness reserves of
some of the world’s forest
2. Give direct more on International aid programs towards
sustainable fuelwood plantations
3. Grow more trees and use more wood – answer to many
questions about our future on this earth
“Grow more trees, and use
more wood”

15. Conclusion
“With our growing knowledge on forests science in
silviculture, biodiversity conservation, soils and
genetics; we can ensure that the forests of this world
continue to provide an abundant, and hopefully
growing supply of renewable wood to help build and
maintain our civilization while at the same time
providing an abundant and hopefully growing, supply
of habitat for the thousands of other species that
depend on the forest for their survival every day just
as much as we do”

16. •"Society grows great when
old men plant trees whose
shade they know they shall
never sit in."

17. Thank you and May the
Forest be with you!!!!!!!!