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Forest resources in the EU expanded significantly over the past 70 years. From 1950 to 2020, there has been an increase in forest area (+37%) Source: https://e
by IMTDb 3y ago
Forest resources in the EU expanded significantly over the past 70 years. From 1950 to 2020, there has been an increase in forest area (+37%)
Source: https://efi.int/forestquestions/q15#:~:text=Forest%20resources%20in%20the%20EU%20expanded%20significantly%20over%20the%20past,wood%20production%20(%2B87%25) https://efi.int/forestquestions/q15#:~:text=Forest%20resourc....
- fuzztester 3y agoBut is it with monoculture? Seen some HN comments about that recently.
- notjoemama 3y agoMaybe, but…presentism? Europe could do what the US has done and declared so much land federally protected that growth is stifled and property rises to a level that prevents the young from buying it. Although that’s a different topic…
- TylerE 3y agoThe land that is federally protected is generally not exactly sites so as to make for prime housing. Most of it, by area, is in places like northern Alaska.
- acdha 3y agoThat’s a problem but it has nothing to do with protected park land. Much of it was driven by racism: white people started leaving cities following civil rights era losses and sprawling out into adjacent suburbs, which were often forced to be low-density to exclude poorer people. That locks in a hefty climate footprint with all of that driving and larger low-efficiency houses.
- latch 3y agoThe loss of forest resources in Europe over the last 10000 years, and in particular the last 5000 years (largely due to human activity) dwarfs any recent gains (1). (1) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-18646-7 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-18646-7