| JOHANNESBURG--Delegates
returning home from the World Summit on Sustainable
Development should pick up shovels and spades
and make up for all the pollution they have caused
by attending the conference, according to Choose
Climate, an environmental website (http://www.chooseclimate.org/).
According
to a handy guide reprinted in Positive News this
week, every traveler should plant one tree for every
1,000 kilometers covered by air, to reduce the amount
of CO2 produced by the flight.
So the swarms of delegates bureaucrats
and administrative staff who came from
the United Nations headquarters in New
York, for instance, traveled just shy
of 13,000 kilometers each.
That means they must soon make arrangements
to plant 13 trees each on the streets
in front of their homes in Manhattan,
Queens, New Jersey and Connecticut. And
fall to winter is a good time to plant
dormant trees in the northern hemisphere.
And for those who attended the Bali
pre-summit preparatory meeting (PrepCom)
earlier this summer: That's another 17
trees.
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