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Aren't you contradicting yourself with the industrial uses point? I don't have any strong refs but my understanding is that 19th c. deforestation was driven by
by lapinot 6y ago
Aren't you contradicting yourself with the industrial uses point? I don't have any strong refs but my understanding is that 19th c. deforestation was driven by growing population, which isn't a problem in europe for much of the foreseeable future. Btw there have been big advances in forest management and forest-compatible agriculture (agroforestry and intercropping in general).
- dredmorbius 6y agoDeforestation well-predated the 19th century, and increased at rates greater than population growth, strongly driven by novel or expanded uses. See Vaclav Smil, Energy and Civilization, on energy use generally. Jed O. Kaplan; Kristen M. Krumhardt; Niklaus Zimmermann, "The prehistoric and preindustrial deforestation of Europe' (10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.09.028 http://gen.lib.rus.ec/scimag/10.1016%2Fj.quascirev.2009.09.028 http://gen.lib.rus.ec/scimag/10.1016%2Fj.quascirev.2009.09.0...) gives an overview of trends and some uses. Wikipedia has a generally accurate though poorly sourced article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_forest_in_Central_Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_forest_in_Centr...
- lapinot 6y agoThanks, i'll look into that.