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Beavers are terraforming Alaska, actually I guess technically whatever the opposite of terraforming is? https://www.businessinsider.com/beavers-invade-alaska-a
by ck2 3y ago
Beavers are terraforming Alaska, actually I guess technically whatever the opposite of terraforming is?
https://www.businessinsider.com/beavers-invade-alaska-arctic-tundra-photos-satellite-images-damage-2023-1 https://www.businessinsider.com/beavers-invade-alaska-arctic...
- camel-cdr 3y agoRestoration?
- rolph 3y agoCastorgenically induced terrestrial succession
- hinkley 3y agoShrill article. The tundra is going away. We can’t refrigerate a million square miles. Do beavers replace the dying tundra with something that is more resilient to climate change? Oh hell yes. Let them.
- explaininjs 3y agoHumans: cause global climate change Animals: react to changing climate Humans: look at how these animals have wrecked my planet, we must intervene to stop them — also Earth can’t undergo terraforming or antiterraforming. It will always be fully earth-like (terra-formed).
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> Earth can’t undergo terraforming or antiterraforming. It will always be fully earth-like Terraforming tends a world towards Earth’s “pristine” state. We wouldn’t start dumping PFAS on Venus solely because they’re on Earth.
- based2 3y agobioforming