State deforestation

The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) yielded to Michigan (Governor Gretchen) Whitmer to build a green energy plant. Such a plant is meant to save the environment and prevent climate changes.

To build such a plant Michigan plans to shave 125,000 trees. This plant is not guarantied more than Obama Solyndra, which lost 550 million dollars in public money, but Michigan will also lose 125,000 trees.

Not 420 acres only that (the) Michigan DNR is after -- it is leasing of another 4,000 acres of public land for the excuse of revenue lost by dwindling hunting and fishing licenses. Worse, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, a rubber stamp of failed Biden policies, wants Michigan to be 100 percent "clean energy" by 2040. Yet global enthusiasm for such energy, impractical as it is, is dwindling. In the same time Whitmer closed in 2022 the Palisades Nuclear Plant, reopening it will provide more than enough clean energy to Michigan obviating the need for an additional plant. Be it as it may, our car industry, whatever left of it, needs cheap energy.

Global deforestation is a big problem by itself. The largest tropical forest on earth in the Amazon basin was reduced by about 50 percent in last 20 years and with it oxygenation and carbon emission process that green trees do. Deforestation in Michigan is by far less than in the Amazon but we should plant trees, not ax them.

Isaac Barr, MD

Bloomfield Hills