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by SonOfLilit 1487 days ago
My educated environmentalist friends are complaining loudly about forest-planting programs the way they are implemented being pad for CO2 absorption (because they replace healthier ecologies) on top of being terrible for the local ecosystems. Ecology is _complex_.
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Yeah, clear-cutting a forest and replacing it with e.g. a pine mono-culture is probably a net negative, eh?

I've heard of a method that revives native forests rapidly: https://daily.jstor.org/the-miyawaki-method-a-better-way-to-...