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Listen, America Has more forest landthan 100 years ago because we clearcut the entire continent for the century before (1) talk about moving goalposts. (2) seri
by RC_ITR 6y ago
Listen, America Has more forest landthan 100 years ago because we clearcut the entire continent for the century before (1) talk about moving goalposts. (2) seriously, go to Vermont & tour the abandoned farms in the middle of nowhere, you'll be stunned by the sins of our ancestors.
(3)Trending is great on that one very small thing, but again, Global Warming is a cumulative problem, not a trending one.
And btw, what's your endgame here? Climate Change denialism? I hope not, b/c that's a real bummer.
- Turing_Machine 6y agoThose farms are abandoned, and have returned to forest cover, precisely because modern agricultural methods have made it possible to raise plenty of food using far less land than the "traditional" "organic" methods ever did. Just as I said. I'm not sure why that counts as "moving goalposts". And my "endgame" here is to not doom billions of people in the Third World to starvation because modern agricultural methods offend the sensibilities of privileged white people living in an affluent society.