New research shows that, instead of replanting rainforests, allowing them to bounce back naturally would store loads of carbon and water.

New research shows that, instead of replanting rainforests, allowing them to bounce back naturally would store loads of carbon and water.

  • activistPnk@slrpnk.netEnglish
    14·
    2 months ago

    Judging from the article and abstract (not the study itself), I think it shows that natural reforestation is clearly better than humans doing arbitrary ad hoc reforestation. It does not seem to suggest that natural reforestation would outperform well-designed strategically engineered reforestation. We could make it as diverse as we want.

    But it’s interesting nonetheless to be able to conclude that reforestation that is not well thought out is worse than doing nothing. It also means that the greenwashing practice of just planting arbitrary trees to take credit for carbon offsetting is even worse than previously thought.

      • Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works
        51·
        2 months ago

        Yeah, natural immunity is much better than antibiotics and vaccines, which is why we invented them in the first… Oh no wait, that’s actually incredibly wrong.

        • FireRetardant@lemmy.world
          42·
          2 months ago

          I’m talking about ecosystems here but thanks for assuming I’m antivaxxer. Disease and sickness is also part of mother nature’s ecosystem controls, we’ve just kinds learned to beat that part.

          • Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works
            31·
            2 months ago

            My point was simply that there are a lot of things we do “better than nature”, though we are a part of nature anyways so the distinction is arbitrary.