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Except it isn't. The Western US is experiencing the worst drought in over 1000 years. And that's on top of the vast reduction in wild spaces, logging and burni
by titzer 5y ago
Except it isn't. The Western US is experiencing the worst drought in over 1000 years.
And that's on top of the vast reduction in wild spaces, logging and burning of rainforests, urbanization, and conversion of prairies and grasslands to agriculture.
This is probably the least "green" the world has been for hundreds of thousands or millions of years, modulo ice ages.
- useragent86 5y agoIt's well known that North America has more and larger forests today than it did a few hundred years ago.
- titzer 5y agoYou're gonna need a citation for that statement, because everything I know about the US disagrees with that. Indiana, for example, was almost completely forest before European settlers arrived [1] and has seen forest cover reduced by 75%. Most of the midwest is similar. [1] https://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/gtr/gtr-nrs-p-108papers/02carman_hee_p108.pdf https://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/gtr/gtr-nrs-p-108papers/02car...
- useragent86 5y agoNo, you're gonna need a citation for my statement; I already know it to be so. You can google as well as I can. I'm not here to win an Internet argument, merely to inform. Whether you agree with me is not my concern.
- fatsdomino001 5y agoThe Western US is not the whole world. Here's a study from NASA that shows the whole world has been seeing significant greening in recent decades: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fertilization-greening-earth https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fer... I agree with you though that deforestation and a lot of agricultural practices have been absolutely terrible to our environment and need to be addressed with the same level of focus that people currently have towards climate change.