all ways. spinna : 24 Nov 2008 2:24:28pm Most thinking, caring and environmentally-aware Australians don't need any extra convincing from so-called "celebrity activists" on the crucial issue of destruction of old-growth and other important forests. They understand the immense gravity of what faces all life on our planet. Australians must unify and act against that insane, rapacious, destructive, non-value-adding vandalism called wood-chipping. As to the writer's other twisted, self-interested pro-forestry-anti-environmentalist rubbish the less written the better. Nobody can argue against the fact that under *any* carbon trading scheme trees are to become the most valuable natural resource on the planet. Australia must act to preserve and enhance its arborial resources as a matter of extreme urgency. As I wrote last year, there is no question pulp milling is surviving on ignorance, greed, corruption, destructiveness and lack of vision for the future. Value adding? No. Highly labour intensive? No. Highly capital intensive? Yes. Indiscriminately environmentally destructive? Yes. Providing for a sustainable future? No. Robbing Australia of a finite resource? Yes. And the list of negatives goes on. Once again for clarity (without any "celebrity" prompting or encouragement): NO MORE WOOD-CHIPPING!!! PJ : 24 Nov 2008 1:47:50pm Mark, as well written as you article is, the fact is that forestry activism is only something of the recent past. The rape and pilliage of our natural timbers had gone on almost un-scrutinised since white settlement in 1788. Australian Red Cedar and Huon Pine come to mind. To most Australians forestry and sustainability are