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> It’s the same thing humans have done for a hundred thousand years: sit around a campfire telling ghost stories. The same thing, but now with 7 billion+ peopl
by Qem 5y ago
> It’s the same thing humans have done for a hundred thousand years: sit around a campfire telling ghost stories.
The same thing, but now with 7 billion+ people. It's a lot of deforestation just to feed all these campfires.
- OliverGilan 5y agoExcept we aren't running out of forests any time soon [1] and they're actually growing back to levels we haven't seen in decades. [1] https://phys.org/news/2018-08-global-forest-loss-years-offset.html https://phys.org/news/2018-08-global-forest-loss-years-offse...
- TheOtherHobbes 5y agoMonocultures are not forests. https://news.mongabay.com/2018/06/study-finds-chinas-new-forests-arent-really-forests/ https://news.mongabay.com/2018/06/study-finds-chinas-new-for...
- hi5eyes 5y agohttps://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54714692 https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54714692 China's forest carbon uptake 'underestimated' reforestation is booming, not to discount how devastated green heavy regions like the amazon are