Looking good. The Earth has greened by 15% or more in a human lifetime. "The greening of the planet over the last two decades represents an increase in leaf area on plants and trees equivalent to the area covered by all the Amazon rainforests. There are now more than two million square miles of extra green leaf area per year"(NASA, 2019). Global tree canopy cover increased by 2.24 million square kilometers (865,000 square miles) between 1982 and 2016 (Nature, 2018). The Earth’s natural vegetation productivity actually increased 6% in 18 years (Nemani et al, 2003) with 42% of this increase coming from the Amazon rainforests. Deserts have shrunk considerably since the 1980's. The Sahara shrank by 12,000km² per year 1984-2015(Liu & Xue, 2020).
We have already crossed the Rubicon for climate change. We are not changing fossil fuel use fast enough to stop or reverse it. Our top priority now should be the preservation of the last remnants of uncut virgin and old growth forests. Logging of national forests in the US needs to end since neither the loggers or Forest Service manage it properly. For better or worse human pressure on the environment has already been selecting for trees which can survive it for decades. The promise of cell culture/GMO isn't going to adapt entire populations fast enough. We've never replanted forests fast enough. That's unlikely to change.
Its not the trees that need to be GMOed or changed but how we humans exploit our environment to the point of climate change and deforestation. We need to change, not the forests. This is so selfish
No we dont, the world is perfectly balanced, thats why we see increases in natural catastrophes. Humans, trees and all of nature live by the exact same rules. We will die off or evolve at some point. But from the respektive of nature it couldnt give a shit. Thinking humans differs from the rest of the species is like being sad that the moon doesnt have any biological nature.
I feel like we could probably mulch all the trees already dead killing the beetles and providing more biomass and soil to the surrounding areas to counter balance the erosion issues. if nothing I feel it would at least help.
Hello, I would like to know if you know of any scientific article or biologist who has studied the problems of felling mangroves for aquaculture. All information is important, Thank you
Yet again the root cause is not mentioned at all. It's not like biotechnology can protect the forests, or any environment for that matter, from overexploitation which roots in the economic paradigm of the (impossible) "constant growth". This is *the* issue.
Sustainable growth and circular economy should be hugely discussed at an international level. Man grown forests are the forests of the future.
Looking good. The Earth has greened by 15% or more in a human lifetime. "The greening of the planet over the last two decades represents an increase in leaf area on plants and trees equivalent to the area covered by all the Amazon rainforests. There are now more than two million square miles of extra green leaf area per year"(NASA, 2019). Global tree canopy cover increased by 2.24 million square kilometers (865,000 square miles) between 1982 and 2016 (Nature, 2018). The Earth’s natural vegetation productivity actually increased 6% in 18 years (Nemani et al, 2003) with 42% of this increase coming from the Amazon rainforests.
Deserts have shrunk considerably since the 1980's. The Sahara shrank by 12,000km² per year 1984-2015(Liu & Xue, 2020).
We have already crossed the Rubicon for climate change. We are not changing fossil fuel use fast enough to stop or reverse it. Our top priority now should be the preservation of the last remnants of uncut virgin and old growth forests. Logging of national forests in the US needs to end since neither the loggers or Forest Service manage it properly. For better or worse human pressure on the environment has already been selecting for trees which can survive it for decades. The promise of cell culture/GMO isn't going to adapt entire populations fast enough. We've never replanted forests fast enough. That's unlikely to change.
Very important video 🙏🌎🙏
Its not the trees that need to be GMOed or changed but how we humans exploit our environment to the point of climate change and deforestation. We need to change, not the forests. This is so selfish
No we dont, the world is perfectly balanced, thats why we see increases in natural catastrophes. Humans, trees and all of nature live by the exact same rules. We will die off or evolve at some point. But from the respektive of nature it couldnt give a shit.
Thinking humans differs from the rest of the species is like being sad that the moon doesnt have any biological nature.
I feel like we could probably mulch all the trees already dead killing the beetles and providing more biomass and soil to the surrounding areas to counter balance the erosion issues. if nothing I feel it would at least help.
Hello, I would like to know if you know of any scientific article or biologist who has studied the problems of felling mangroves for aquaculture. All information is important, Thank you
Yet again the root cause is not mentioned at all. It's not like biotechnology can protect the forests, or any environment for that matter, from overexploitation which roots in the economic paradigm of the (impossible) "constant growth". This is *the* issue.
Its an na emotional piece, its not meant to be political or scientific. It really doesnt serve any purpose at all