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What responsibility does a typical reader of HN have? What can a reader do?
by spodek 9y ago
What responsibility does a typical reader of HN have?
What can a reader do?
- microcolonel 9y agoBrazil is failing for roughly the same reasons as most of the rest of South America: excesses of state power, which are too attractive for business to pass up. The economy is depressed by excessive policy, the people have bigger problems than the destruction of the Amazon. In addition, because the government owns the woodland, there's basically no reason to replant or maintain, which means that if you want lumber you have to go into old growth forest.
- andrenth 9y agoYou've been downvoted but your answer is spot-on.
- agumonkey 9y agoI wish someone knowledgeable about forestry could explain why replanting is not done. What are the costs and subtleties, beside political friction I mean. Or maybe it's only political.
- non-prophet 9y agoReplanting is only done when economically viable and future "land use" is for regeneration of the harvested species. This is done is Pacific Northwest of the US for Douglas Fir. Replanting isn't used in US Northern Hardwood production as the stands are cut to retain trees that reproduce and in another 15-30 year period another variable retention harvest is performed [1]. Modern forestry leverages ecological theory such as disturbance regimes to mimic changes and diversify the timber stands for risk management and ecological factors [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_retention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_retention [2] https://andrewsforest.oregonstate.edu/sites/default/files/lter/pubs/pdf/pub3272.pdf https://andrewsforest.oregonstate.edu/sites/default/files/lt...
- bpodgursky 9y agoA lot of the cleared land is used for cattle grazing.
- legulere 9y agoThat's not the reason. Here in Bavaria most of the forests are in the hand of the state and there are growing forests since roughly 100 years. More likely a driving force is the internalization of agriculture. All the cows and pigs raised in Europe are fed with south-American soy.
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- agentultra 9y agoResponsibility? I guess it depends on how responsible you feel. What can you do? One of the easiest things is to stop eating meat. http://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/beef-production-is-killing-the-amazon-rainforest/ http://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/beef-producti...