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quick - bio-engineered seedlings must be the answer! The article does ask important questions, but also repeatedly mentions "investment" and "investors". Peopl

quick - bio-engineered seedlings must be the answer! The article does ask important questions, but also repeatedly mentions "investment" and "investors". People, the forests do not grow money. "Thirty-five million dollars" is a fortune in the forest, yet our living world is dying for lack of simple things, and death by a thousand cuts. How can one billion dollars be spent on a single recreation facility[0], and no money for forestry? Because the system is not reflecting real value, it reflects self-referential money value. Beware of investors. These science people are lining up for what? -- [0] New Athletics stadium in Las Vegas to reportedly cost ... Sportsnaut https://sportsnaut.com https://sportsnaut.com › las-vegas-athletics-stadium-cost May 27, 2023 — The total stadium cost is estimated at $1.5 billion, for a new ballpark that will have a retractable roof and seat 30,000 people.

asdff 3y ago
Even better would be a drone that can irrigate, limb a tree, spread compost, and use directed energy on unhelpful pests while ignoring beneficial insects. We have the technology today to build a drone that can do all of these things, there's just no market for it so it doesn't exist or else it would already.
- SoftTalker 3y ago
  Even in the best of circumstances, a tree takes years if not decades to mature. That isn't a timeline that many investors are attracted to.
  - swifthesitation 3y ago
    With careful planning and initial human upkeep for the first few years, it's been shown this can be accelerated and have a self-sustaining forest in ~10 years. Akira Miyawaki (29.01.1928 - 07.16.2021) [0], a botanist who studyied plant ecology, seeds, and natural forest restoration methods, introduced a "reforestation" algorithm known as the "Miyawaki method" in the early 1970s [1]. It has been adopted throughout the world with great success. And also prompted a viral TED talk by Shubhendu Sharma [2] who then produced a 12 video series on YT on how to create your own forest [3]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Miyawaki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Miyawaki [1] https://www.af-info.or.jp/en/blueplanet/assets/pdf/list/2006essay-miyawaki.pdf https://www.af-info.or.jp/en/blueplanet/assets/pdf/list/2006... [2] https://youtu.be/mjUsobGWhs8 https://youtu.be/mjUsobGWhs8 [3] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDw6OmGaV5rnOCATIho19IcvpF2eqsG_6 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDw6OmGaV5rnOCATIho19Icvp...

asdff 3y ago

Even better would be a drone that can irrigate, limb a tree, spread compost, and use directed energy on unhelpful pests while ignoring beneficial insects. We have the technology today to build a drone that can do all of these things, there's just no market for it so it doesn't exist or else it would already.

SoftTalker 3y ago
Even in the best of circumstances, a tree takes years if not decades to mature. That isn't a timeline that many investors are attracted to.
- swifthesitation 3y ago
  With careful planning and initial human upkeep for the first few years, it's been shown this can be accelerated and have a self-sustaining forest in ~10 years. Akira Miyawaki (29.01.1928 - 07.16.2021) [0], a botanist who studyied plant ecology, seeds, and natural forest restoration methods, introduced a "reforestation" algorithm known as the "Miyawaki method" in the early 1970s [1]. It has been adopted throughout the world with great success. And also prompted a viral TED talk by Shubhendu Sharma [2] who then produced a 12 video series on YT on how to create your own forest [3]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Miyawaki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Miyawaki [1] https://www.af-info.or.jp/en/blueplanet/assets/pdf/list/2006essay-miyawaki.pdf https://www.af-info.or.jp/en/blueplanet/assets/pdf/list/2006... [2] https://youtu.be/mjUsobGWhs8 https://youtu.be/mjUsobGWhs8 [3] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDw6OmGaV5rnOCATIho19IcvpF2eqsG_6 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDw6OmGaV5rnOCATIho19Icvp...