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You understand that old growth forest and new growth forest have completely different ecological profiles, right? False equivalence. Regreening of new growth fo
by fzzzy 5y ago
You understand that old growth forest and new growth forest have completely different ecological profiles, right? False equivalence. Regreening of new growth forest does not make up for the same amount of area as old growth.
- goatlover 5y agoShifting the goal posts. The article and the comments were not talking about ecological profiles, but rather deforestation.
- fzzzy 5y agoSorry, but you are just straight up wrong. Even if reforestation percentage has increased in recent years, the derivative of forest is still negative, and the reforestation is new growth, which as I mentioned is not as ecologically useful. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.FRST.ZS https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.FRST.ZS