Stop Planting Trees, Says Guy Who Inspired World to Plant a Trillion Trees
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If you’re interested in the complex ecology of forests the book “The Hidden Life of Trees” is a really good book that talks about all of the symbiotic relationships of forests and how they work together to make a forest strong. Can’t recommend it enough
Good book. I think the thumbnail sounds up the main problem with mindless tree planting. Monocultures, isolated from historic biomes won't become healthy ecosystems at all but fall prey to bugs and disease. Same as with human culture, biodiversity is needed for it to thrive.
Yeah, we need rewilding, not tree farms.
Yeah, but actually doing that at scale means closing down farms which currently serve the meat and biofuels industries. That's hard.