I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues...
They fart like hell, though.
Note also a few more flies in the ointment at the end of the article.
It's not at all surprising that the kind of people who think an economic system can be run from a control room like a fine machine also believe that the environment can be twiddled by the Enlightened controlling a few elements. As with economies, it's not as simple as all that.