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Kalistan leads the world in reducing global warming
Environmental Minister Alice says investments in tree planting paying dividends
Eveari, Grand Duchy of Ananto
May 8, 5734


Kalistani Redwood forests, like this grove on Ananto's North Coast, planted under Empress Mary act as giant carbon sink in Kalistan

In direct response to the bragging done by the Government of Nadiya concerning their national policy of global climate pollution, His Imperial Majesty's Minister for Environment and Tourism, Alice Foreal called the announcement "propaganda" and said that Kalistan has been diligently and successfully combatting global climate warming for more than 100 years. "Even before the reign of Empress Mary Ananto, Kalistanis have been working actively and continuously to undermine the efforts of nations who see their own parochial gains in the pollution of the global environment," said Minister Foreal. "Beginning when we ended production of petroleum ourselves, we have dedicated hundreds of billions to the cause of cleaning the environment, the water and the air, and we today carry much of the burden for a lot of the world."

Minister Foreal pointed to Mary's ambitious redwood tree program, which eventually planted more than 50 million redwoods, some of which are celebrating their 100th Birthday this year. "Kalistan's forests are Mary's legacy, and we are celebrating the 100th year since the first tree plantings this year," said Foreal. "She not only restored one of the most valuable renewable resources in Kalistan's forests, but she also gave us a potent tool to take more carbon out of the air than vicious nations like Nadiya annually throw into it. This serves to more than undermine Nadiya's gross pollution efforts, and help to maintain the stability of the globe's temperatures and weather patterns, regardless of what some Nadiyan propagandist claims."

Foreal said Kalistan does not have good data on how much damage Nadiya does annually to the environment. "Everything that comes from that government cannot be taken at face value," said Foreal. "But if they are destroying the environment as fast as their Commissioner claims they are, their air must be toxic, and the land they claim to reclaim from the tundra must be filled with toxic carcinogenic chemicals so horrific that the agriculture they hope to utilize the land for would be impossible. Because otherwise, how would they be able to negate the effect of more than 50 million redwoods in northern Kalistan and hundreds of millions of other trees across the rest of our nation? Kalistan's highlands and cities have become arboretums, and these massive mature forests across Kalistan and most of rest of Northern Seleya, negate carbon pollution in the atmosphere better than any artificial carbon sequestration program ever could."

Besides, Forreal said, Nadiya is just one country. "They may have an unrealistic amount of oil in that little nation that they burn night and day, but Kalistan is roughly equivalent in terms of area. While Kalistan alone is not responsible for all the efforts to reduce global climate destruction that is conducted deliberately by the Nadiyan Government, Nadiya is literally the only nation actively polluting the environment. It is hard to believe the numbers they claim regarding their success in melting the tundra without imagining that they have lit their entire nation on fire to produce the results the government there claims. Furthermore, there are no other reports of similar global warming anywhere else. Nor do we read reports of the fallout of Nadiya's massive pollution efforts in other nations. So it is impossible for a reasonable person to assume that the polluters actually are winning."

Meanwhile, Kalistan will go on counteracting increasing greenhouse gasses in the environment. "We see continued use of petrocarbons to be an assault on the wellbeing of our people," said Foreal. "And unlike other nations, Kalistan is not satisfied to sit by and let our children get lung cancer while our fishing stocks and reefs are depleted by oil waste. We have joined the fight against the gross polluters more than a century ago, and we have been actively pursuing anti-global warming policies for much longer than this. Nadiya may believe that pollution of the air is in their own national interests, but to achieve this they also have to accept the negative health effects of massive pollution too, and to date, the National Government have never admitted to any of these. So we can only assume that we, and the nations who are committed to reducing atmospheric and water pollution are actually winning the battle. We stand ready to help all those who are sick of nations like Nadiya trying to kill us all for their own benefit." Even if they aren't actually successful in doing so.

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