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by richardw 1163 days ago
“The grass/food that cattle eat, what would happen to it if let to decompose ?”

It would decompose (once) and then natural habitat would return because we need less of that land, capturing carbon more permanently because it’s released more slowly. In Brazil, exactly the opposite is happening: deforestation to feed cattle. Are you arguing for that deforestation?
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DuckFeathers 1162 days ago
>Are you arguing for that deforestation?

Not the same user but I will argue for deforestation any day. Humans are grassland creatures and trees are our enemy. Trees shadow the grass and affect our natural habitat. Even elephants know this and get rid of trees when they see them. [1]

In fact, when the wooly mammoths went extinct, Pleistocene Park turned from a grassland to a forest, and now an ecological disaster [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vvC2MHJezF0

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXAirenteRA

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tfourb 1162 days ago
That's just dump. If you really want to over simplify human history, we are Savanna creatures, and Savannas contain plenty of trees and other perennial plants. I also don't get why you are bringing elephants into this, especially because there are whole sub-species of elephants that are adapted to forest-dwelling.

As are humans, by the way. Plenty of human civilizations have historically specialized to live in heavily forested biomes, ranging from the rain forests of the tropics to the boreal forests in northern Europe, the North America and Asia. Agroforestry as a practice goes back thousands of years in both the old and the new world.

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DuckFeathers 1161 days ago
>I also don't get why you are bringing elephants into this

Because trees are invasive plants and elephants keep them out of the grassland ecosystems.

>especially because there are whole sub-species of elephants that are adapted to forest-dwelling.

Yes, trees did win that battle... potentially because of sudden drop in elephant population because of disease or famine... but it doesn't have to be the case everywhere.

>Savannas contain plenty of trees and other perennial plants.

This is a cause for concern and it is a direct result of the drop in African elephant population from several million to around half a million now.

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