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We need to plant new forests. We need old growth / primaeval forests, and a lot of them. Our curent forest practices are laughable. [https://www.youtube.com/wa
by myshpa 5y ago
We need to plant new forests. We need old growth / primaeval forests, and a lot of them. Our curent forest practices are laughable.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKL40aBg-7E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKL40aBg-7E - The Biotic Pump]
[https://forestecosyst.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40663-017-0124-9 https://forestecosyst.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s406... - The enduring link between forest cover and rainfall: a historical perspective on science and policy discussions]
[https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/amazon-losing-flying-rivers-ability-to-curb-warming https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/amazon-lo... - Amazon Losing "Flying Rivers," Ability to Curb Warming]
If even Amazon rainforest can now start losing its ability to retain/produce rain due to deforestation (animal agriculture, hello again), how can our scattered and battered patches of trees we call forests have any meaningful ability to save/enhance the water cycle?
We need more forests, more continuous forests, large forests, new rainforests ... that's the only way.