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On the topic of wooden houses:
Should property owners be expected to purchase carbon offsets when they demolish a wooden structure, particularly an older structure where the carbon in that wood has been sequestered for, perhaps, 100 years?

Not only would we be losing an historic/cultural resource, but also a carbon sequestration resource.

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It seems to me that it is common for people to use the terms "race" and "culture" interchangeably. The two are very different. I can't agree more that it is offensive when friends, colleagues, or acquaintances want to use their association with a particular person they perceive to be "different" based on appearance as a way to demonstrate what they consider to be support of "cultural diversity." For many of us who are bi-racial or multi-racial, we are not culturally different from others in our community because we were raised in the same social/cultural environment that defines our shared "culture."

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