All 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 l

All 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.