Forests Are Coming Back

[mdvaldosta]

The forests are increasing in countries across the world after centuries of being destroyed for their wood and to make way for people, according to research. By measuring the density of trees rather than simply the area on which they grow, scientists have calculated that forests are increasing in almost half of the world’s 50 [...]

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[elluko]

W00t, Go trees! We need our oxygen!

 

[Homer]

thats good news now lets start working on the ocean and fish.

 

[sharpies]

Too little, too late.



Allan

 

[Reaver]

Too little, too late.



Allan

What? How? If trees are growing back everwhere around the world, then why are you still "upset." Even when the forests grow back it just "isn't good enough." I suppose.

 

[sharpies]

I know that you are just trying to get a rise, but I'll explain what I mean anyway.

There are way too many humans on this little tiny planet, needing more & more resources every day just to survive, let alone those of us that live in the first world - we use more resources than all the others combined.

This planet was not built to take this kind of abuse & a little patch of healing here & there does not mean we should pat ourselves on the back. Don't worry, though, because once man is gone, the planet will fix itself in only a couple of hundred thousand years or so.

Allan