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It still seems like a net positive. Environments change an order of magnitude more quickly than ecosystems, and many orders of magnitude more quickly than evolu
by zwkrt 7y ago
It still seems like a net positive. Environments change an order of magnitude more quickly than ecosystems, and many orders of magnitude more quickly than evolution. But if you build it they will eventually come. Life abhors a vacuum...
- runarberg 7y agoForestry is hard. If you plant the wrong species, in the wrong soil, with the wrong fertilizer or in the wrong climate, you are likely to completely fail. Early attempts at forestry often ended up with every single one of the planted trees dying. Luckily forestry is a pretty seasoned science by now and people mostly know what they are doing. I trust that the Ethiopian forestry scientists did their job though before this and they end up far more successful then these early attempts, before the science was known.