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The Amazon rainforest was created millennia ago without human intervention; why would we need to intervene at all with its regrowth when we’re the reason it’s b
by tourmalinetaco 3y ago
The Amazon rainforest was created millennia ago without human intervention; why would we need to intervene at all with its regrowth when we’re the reason it’s being cut down? It sounds more likely that we’d only fuck it up further rather than let it heal.
- hinkley 3y agoBecause rainforest soil is very low in nutrients. Most of the nutrients are locked into the biosphere, which they carted off or set on fire. Temperate forest soil has a lot more capacity for regeneration, but we're 3-4 rounds of clearcutting into most North American forests and we are hearing alarm bells about how there might not be another round if we don't change something.
- myshpa 3y ago> The Amazon rainforest was created millennia ago without human intervention The Supposedly Pristine, Untouched Amazon Rainforest Was Actually Shaped By Humans https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/pristine-untouched-amazonian-rainforest-was-actually-shaped-humans-180962378/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/pristine-untou...
- lacrimacida 3y agoIf you compare to what extent the native population shaped the Amazon rainforest to the modern abundance in population, urbanization and explotation of the planet, I’d still consider the Amazon as pristine and untouched more or less…
- edgyquant 3y agoOkay? It wasn’t, it was man made and cultivated over thousands of years. That isn’t “untouched”
- edgyquant 3y ago> e Amazon rainforest was created millennia ago without human intervention This is incorrect. The Amazon was cultivated by native communities