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Yeah, this is not growing a forest. It's constructing a park.
by BurningFrog 5y ago
Yeah, this is not growing a forest.
It's constructing a park.
- errcorrectcode 5y agoNailed it. It will need constant maintenance since weather patterns, fauna, and soil won't be self-sustaing.
- joshuaissac 5y agoReforestation can happen on its own if the land is left alone. Rinderpest and the tsetse fly caused the reforestation of previously inhabited lands in sub-Saharan Africa. http://www.faculty.umb.edu/pjt/pearce00.pdf http://www.faculty.umb.edu/pjt/pearce00.pdf
- errcorrectcode 5y agoAnecdotal example not widely-applicable. If the climate is changes from semi-arid Mediterranean to desert, forests will dry up, burn, and not return as they were.
- xipho 5y agoIf you want to see why we are in trouble look no further than this comment. Imagine thinking humans are required for nurturing all life on this planet. It's the other way around my friend. Are there situations where humans can help? Yes. Are we capabale of terra-farming. Heck no.
- errcorrectcode 5y agoTerraforming or terrafarming? We already did ruinous terraforming with anthropogenic climate change. The mainstream is stuck on nice-sounding, impractical, meaningless Bandaids rather than delving into scalable solutions that will likely require economic incentives and international coordination.
- xipho 5y agoThis has got to be a troll, right? Basic succession ecology. Just how do you think forests came to be in the first place? You realize we have already wiped out, basically, whole species of old-growth hardwood forests here in the US (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_chestnut https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_chestnut)? Where do you think those forest came from? Have you ever seen an empty lot for more than a couple of years? Take a look at pictures in Michigan after the exodus there.