The idea of forests being carbon sinks has other major faults.
Firstly, the planetary ecosystem deveoped over the last few millennia depended on a lot of forests that we've already cut down - we need major reforestation to get back to where we were a couple of centuries back, before our tree-chopping and fossil fuel frenzy.
Secondly, and most importantly, trees do not make the carbon disappear. They merely store it. When the trees die and rot, or are burned, the carbon is released back into the atmosphere. It's not a solution at all, just a short delay mechanism.
Such projects, even if they were on the scale that worked, would still not change the fact that we are adding CO2 to the atmosphere and it is going to kill us.
'Mustn't harm the consumers' says Bush. What could possibly harm comsumers more than killing the ecosystems on which their lives depend?
When Bush says 'consumers', 'American people' or 'American economy', simply substitute the phrase 'short term profits of large American corporations' and you find his meaning.
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