The “Fix Our Forest Act” is scheduled for a House floor vote this week. While it contains key provisions that will usher in better management of our forests, it also prioritizes projects that create “ecosystem services,” the green term used to monetize air, pollination, photosynthesis and other natural assets.
Section 301 of the bill (H.R. 471) sets up biochar demonstration projects. Biochar is promoted as a process that can mitigate climate change since the product sequesters carbon – something the green new deal crowd believes is harmful to the environment (nevermind that is essential plant food.)
The Act directs the Secretaries to prioritize projects that create “ecosystem services.”
“(3) In selecting proposals under paragraph (2), the covered Secretaries shall give priority to entering into partnerships with eligible entities that submit proposals to carry out biochar demonstration projects that (C) have the most potential to demonstrate (iii) the ecosystem services created or supported by the use of biochar.”
Translation, this allows investors to create a value in something that is not producing a viable consumer good, such as building supplies. Instead, it is generated to appease a social goal, in this case to achieve net zero and the United Nation’s sustainability targets. This is a slippery slope similar to how Congress authorized private entities to own “environmental services” on private lands without the landowners consent through the “Sustains Act” in 2022.
This is the new Conservative Congress that promised to eradicate the green new deal scam. They can fix this act by removing two small provisions without harming the purpose of the bill.
