Evidently, we are pretty good about counting the number of trees cut down. Are we also capable of determining the number of new trees planted or of those which grew naturally from fallen seeds, nuts or fruit?
A statistic I have heard quoted (but have not verified) is that 80 years ago my state was 25% forested and today is 75% tree covered.
If the global temperaure were to increase a degree or two, we’d have billions more trees growing. And more crops to feed the people. The world would be a tropical paradise. We could all lay around eating raisins and grapes and sipping on RC Cola.
Many moons ago (a little indian lingo there) I was involved in Central American archaeology (before I realized that one cannot pay the mortgage doing that). Those beautiful pictures of excavated pyramids and other buildings only remain beautiful due to the daily war on the encroaching rain forest. Most of the precolombian pyramids and other structures have been swallowed by nature. Any existing excavations will be swallowed up by the forest if not for the daily cutting back of the forest.
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