The BBC reports:
It is counterintuitive. One would assume that as people cut down tropical forests to make use of the land, the overall percentage of the earth’s surface covered by such forests would decline. But the Lord works in mysterious ways: “there is also evidence that in some countries, forests are expanding spontaneously.” Well, that does kind of make sense–probably how the forests got so big in the first place. It all reminds me of those parking meters they had in front of The Nature Store when I was a kid–for every quarter you put in you saved one acre of land, an eighth of a cheetah, or some such nonsense. Turns out I could have spent my money on video games and the forests would have expanded spontaneously all on their own. Think globally, do nothing. Yet while the UN concedes its data is flawed, it remains absolutely certain that its conclusion are correct. Why should the bureaucrats at the United Nations, of all people, have a hard time understanding the concept of spontaneous expansion? It’s how they make a living.
