French $217m lottery winner donates almost all winnings to tackle climate change(cnn.com)
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French $217m lottery winner donates almost all winnings to tackle climate change
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/09/world/france-lotto-winner-spends-on-planet-climate/index.html
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I am happy more people feel anger when they see trees cut down. Most places I visited as a kid are now deserts (good for putting solar but that’s not happening either) or farms instead of forests and it is said.
Forest cover has been increasing in most first world countries since 1970
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.FRST.ZS?end=2020...
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.FRST.ZS?location...
edit: also
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/forest-transition-phase?c...
edit: also
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/forest-transition-phase?c...
That's not a bad trend, but such data has to be interpreted carefully. Throughout much of the (so-called) developed world, the past several hundred years of growth have seen large amounts of old-growth forests cleared. Replacing those forests, ecologically speaking, will take many human lifespans, and filling the void they once occupied (as well as land that was traditionally not forested and therefore provided different ecosystem services) with human-planned monoculture will do little more than inflate oversimplistic statistics that provide cover for those seeking to avoid taking responsibility for the health of the natural environment.
To be clear, I'm not questioning your intentions, just pointing out that the data you cite isn't (necessarily) as encouraging as a superficial examination might suggest. I'm not an ecologist, but I'd imagine that measuring biodiversity levels, soil health, cleanliness of air + water, etc. would paint a better picture of environmental health than forest cover.
To be clear, I'm not questioning your intentions, just pointing out that the data you cite isn't (necessarily) as encouraging as a superficial examination might suggest. I'm not an ecologist, but I'd imagine that measuring biodiversity levels, soil health, cleanliness of air + water, etc. would paint a better picture of environmental health than forest cover.
I'm not religious so I don't feel old growth forest have any sort of spiritual value.
Great, still everything here (most of eu), which was a thick forest, is now a desert or has a bunch of little trees. How to interpret that?
> (most of eu), which was a thick forest, is now a desert
According to the world Bank [0], that is not what is happening. Do you have a better source?
[0] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.FRST.ZS?location...
According to the world Bank [0], that is not what is happening. Do you have a better source?
[0] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.FRST.ZS?location...
yes the data is right, forests are maintained in Europe, but we would need even more vegetation to cope with the pollution, that's more the idea there
What a waste might as well just set it on fire or donate it to the military
Inflation everywhere.