NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/austin/general/3478

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From: [e-mail] (John Bodnar)
Newsgroups: austin.general
Subject: Re: 2nd Annual Austin ReLeaf TreeAthalon
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Date: 19 Nov 92 04:32:45 GMT
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According to [e-mail] (John F. Haugh II):
>In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (John Bodnar) writes:
>>Great, just what we need.  A fund raiser so that more trees can be planted
>>in Austin to release more airborne volatile organic compounds that are a
>>primary cause of air pollution and misery for allergy sferers.  Good
>>intentions that will end up leading to unsuspected problems.  When will
>>this city learn!
>
>With about 1,000 trees per person in Austin, adding another .00018 trees
>per Austin resident isn't going to harm the environment that much.
>
>Now, if every Austin resident did as I did and planted a Magnolia tree,
>then we'd have problems.  The city might start to smell better ;-)

Yeah, no thanks to the various phenolic, terpene, polynuclear aromatic
hydrocarbon (PAH), pyrrolizidine alkaloid, and diterpene ester compounds
produced in the leaves and barks of trees that enter the atmosphere by the
ton each and every day.  Many of these compounds are carcinogenic, but no
one seems to care about this.  No...nothing natural could cause cancer ;-)
--
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The University of Texas at Austin    :
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