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> restoring forests to their preindustrial extent could lower global average temperatures by 0.34 degrees Celsius
by nothrowaways 1y ago
> restoring forests to their preindustrial extent could lower global average temperatures by 0.34 degrees Celsius
- ImHereToVote 1y agoWhy stop at pre-industrial. We can go extra-natural. Naturally most forests were grazed at by large roaming herbivores.
- Sharlin 1y agoWhich would be an absolutely huge (and practically impossible) change in, say, Western Europe. Maybe 80–90% of all farmland would have to be reforested. It was difficult enough to get people to agree on the 20% goal of EU's Nature Restoration Regulation.
- Leherenn 1y agoIt depends what preindustrial means exactly. Most of the forests in Western Europe were cut well before that, I believe around 1800 is actually the trough. Your 80-90% figure is probably back to the original state, but I would guess it's antiquity or pre-antiquity levels.
- Sharlin 1y agoYeah, fair point.