Is it Just Hot Air?

Is it just hot air! You would think that the environmental community would be delighted over hearing the news that Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns plans to offer incentives for farmers and foresters who actively reduce greenhouses gasses. But no, in a response reeking of sarcasm, David Hawkins director of the Natural Resource Defense Council called the voluntary registry a "charade that is intended to allow the government and the participants to portray that they are doing something about global warming when they are not." Johanns believes that farm and forest landowners can play an active role in helping to reduce greenhouse gasses for example farmers that use anorobic digestion systems, or no till practices will be rewarded for their efforts. At the very least the new guidelines for tracking greenhouse emissions are a step in the right direction, maybe if the vanguards of the environmental movement would put the energy they now spend criticizing all governmental efforts into working to find a solution, attempts to reduce greenhouse gasses won't become just hot air. I'm Susan Allen and this is Food Forethought. Source: ENN March 24 2005