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> How can this be true when our rate of deforestation is accelerating Where are you getting this from? In any case, tropical deforestation may be accelerating
by googlryas 4y ago
> How can this be true when our rate of deforestation is accelerating
Where are you getting this from?
In any case, tropical deforestation may be accelerating, but perhaps temperate reforestation is accelerating even faster.
- TaylorAlexander 4y agoWell it seems we were both wrong. According to this link the rate of deforestation is decreasing. But still, they say there is less forest now than there was in 1990. "Since 1990, it is estimated that 420 million hectares of forest have been lost through conversion to other land uses, although the rate of deforestation has decreased over the past three decades. Between 2015 and 2020, the rate of deforestation was estimated at 10 million hectares per year, down from 16 million hectares per year in the 1990s. The area of primary forest worldwide has decreased by over 80 million hectares since 1990." https://www.fao.org/state-of-forests/en/ https://www.fao.org/state-of-forests/en/
- hinkley 4y agoBased on our current understanding of fungally dominated soils, restoring temperate forests will do far more per acre for atmospheric carbon levels than restoring the same acreage of tropical rainforest. Which we also need to do soon because the longer you wait, the wider the band around the Tropics where fungally dominated ecosystems cannot thrive. Not that we shouldn't have people working to slow tropical deforestation, but we can't and shouldn't put all our eggs in that basket.