Favoring Forests in Massachusetts
Restabilizing the climate requires protecting forests: H 912 and H 1002 are significant and meaningful
Dear Members of the Massachusetts Joint Committee for Environment, Natural Resources, and Agriculture: Chairs Dykema & Rausch, Co-Chairs Domb & Elbridge, Reps Capano, Carey, Ciccolo, Gentile, Giannino, Kelcourse, Mark, Orrall, Robertson, and Senators Fattman, Moore and Rush —
There has been so much citizen concern and activism to protect the amazing resource of our forests here in Massachusetts. Yet legislators keep finding ways to ignore or deprioritize this vital component of a livable planet. Your reluctance to take on whoever/whatever is pressuring you to keep on cutting damages those of us who live in the Commonwealth, and is part of the entire economy threatening to destroy our dwindling chance to restore a stable climate.
I know you’re juggling and trying to balance many things. It’s a disservice, though, to call them competing interests. There are “interests” which seek to continue the extractive economy no matter what the cost. And there are “interests” fighting desperately to salvage some semblance of reliable weather for the children and grandchildren. The planet needs forests. The people of the planet need forests.
