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Tbh “natural progression to growing forests” sounds to me like a mere excuse for doing nothing about the status quo. We’re already growing plants for agricultur
by rTX5CMRXIfFG 5y ago
Tbh “natural progression to growing forests” sounds to me like a mere excuse for doing nothing about the status quo. We’re already growing plants for agriculture and are currently looking to terraform Mars, and we as a species were so willing to break that “natural progression” when we started building cultures around automobiles and plastics.
- rini17 5y agoEverything can be used as excuse. That's not an argument. It is possible to cooperate with natural progression to create ecosystem that provides resources for humans. Actually humans did that for thousands of years. It has the advantages that requires much less energy input (less fertilizer, tilling) and it's more resilient to pests and climate change. It has the disadvantage that it isn't optimized for short term profit. And it isn't cool (likely to elicit "bah, weeds" response).
- xipho 5y agoTbh "mere excuse for doing nothing" sounds like a mere excuse for a lack of imaginative solutions and reluctance to take time to think things out. It doesn't follow from my statement. We can disrupt the status quo AND (in parallel) do other things. It will be incredibly difficult to take land from private shareholders and keep people "off" of it- something that will be highly disruptive. If you read 5 words further you'll see I referenced referenced land-management techniques, there is a huge wealth of science that exists, and is ongoing in this regard, applying these is the opposite of "doing nothing".
- thizzbuzz 5y agoYeah, that's pretty much all you'll get out of HN - yet another rehashing of a slightly-contrarian justification for "doing nothing about the status quo".