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Very good points. Also interesting: - atmospheric rivers (rainforest deforestation influencing rainfall even on other continents) - biotic pump theory (or so
by myshpa 3y ago
Very good points.
Also interesting:
- atmospheric rivers (rainforest deforestation influencing rainfall even on other continents)
- biotic pump theory (or something like it) - without continuous/significant forest we lose rain inland and get droughts
- forestry practices - those sorry ass patches of trees (33% of land) surrounded by fields and pastures (50%) in europe should not be called forests, they don't force wind to go over them, because they're not multilevel canopies, so wind goes through and dries them up and they're dying more quickly and don't function as well as they could if they were larger and properly structured (like primaeval forests). Our foresters make them look like monoculture parks, even removing dead branches and stumps ... no wonder that they're almost biodeserts.
- cca 50% of felled roundwood (paper, celulose, furniture) could be replaced with cca 5% of animal agriculture lands and hemp
> It’s scary stuff, anyway. And it seems like not many people are aware or listening.
Nobody cares. Nobody wants to care. Depressing.
- steve_adams_86 3y agoAll great points, too. These are all well documented in research spanning decades but yeah, not enough people are concerned about it. Forests are as much our lifeline as the seas in my opinion. They’re a major factor in stabilizing climate — they quite literally make it rain, in more ways than one. I’ve heard the biotic pump theory referred to as “rain hopping” quite often, recently. Is it still a theory, or very evidently real now? I know some hydrologists refer to it very plainly, but maybe it isn’t officially in the books as a known phenomenon. I seem to recall it was considered as a factor in the irreversible changes in the Amazon, but I’d need to review it. I might be assuming that.