And the reason I despise Al Gore with a passion:
The Pacific yew can be cut down and processed to produce a potent chemical, taxol, which offers some promise of curing certain forms of lung, breast, and ovarian cancer in patients who would otherwise quickly die. It seems an easy choice–sacrifice the tree for a human life–until one learns that three trees must be destroyed for each patient treated…
Al Gore, “Earth In The Balance”, 1992, Page 119
You see, my Mother died from Ovarian Cancer. Three trees seems like more than acceptable price.
Why do I think that if it were Al Gore’s life, he wouldn’t hesitate to take down a couple of trees?