The World’s Largest Ever Tropical Forest Restoration Project Looks To Restore 73 million New Trees In The Amazon By 2023.
“A new project seeks to kickstart a revival for the world’s largest rainforest by planting new trees — tens of millions of them.
The project, announced Friday at the “Rock in Rio” music fest in Brazil, aims to restore 73 million trees in the Brazilian Amazon by 2023. Spanning 30,000 hectares of land (about 74,000 acres), the project is the largest tropical forest restoration in the world and helps Brazil move towards its Paris Agreement target of reforesting 12 million hectares of land by 2030…”
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Sounds like one of those projects that could be done, should be done, is affordable, easy and with obvious benefits and yet will somehow never be done.
Derek Stairs Well with that sort of outlook, I’m glad you’re not one of those working on this project.
Wasim Muklashy Yeah, well, after having spent more than fifty years on this planet, I kinda know how things work. People might talk about the environment but when election time rolls around, do they vote green? Did you?
Derek Stairs With all due respect, what it sounds like you just said is that you’re jaded, know everything and believe nothing changes.
I beg to differ.
After spending 41 years on this planet, I continue to be amazed and inspired by how much has changed and continues to change and believe that we’re barely entering the most enlightening and exciting era of humanity yet.
Hell, over the past 10 years, I’ve seen more change than the century previous, including the increased mainstream adoption of green and eco-friendly, environmental issues, approaches, and values. We now live in an era where an electric car is one of the top 10 selling car in the country, a solar watt hour is 35 CENTS versus 75 DOLLARS a decade ago and Texas, TEXAS, is getting 20% of it’s power from wind and renewable resources.
And that’s certainly not because of people that sat around saying “I kinda know how things work.” These are people that are out there saying things like ‘I wonder how we can make things work better.’
I think you’re up for a viewing of Peter Rifkin’s and Vice’s “Third Industrial Revolution.” You may be surprised at what’s already happening that you are obviously unaware of. The best part is, Peter is someone who spent 70 years on this planet so he has us both beat. We can all learn a thing or two…
Oh, and yes, I did vote green. As did the majority of our population. The antiquated electoral college system just doesn’t reflect that – another thing that needs to change…and will…
Over all, 1,600 coal plants are planned or under construction in 62 countries, according to Urgewald’s tally, which uses data from the Global Coal Plant Tracker portal. The new plants would expand the world’s coal-fired power capacity by 43 percent.
“Even today, new countries are being brought into the cycle of coal dependency,” said Heffa Schücking, the director of Urgewald.
Despite increased public awareness of the importance of tropical rainforests, deforestation rates are actually on the rise, mostly due to activities such as commercial logging, agriculture, cattle ranching, dam-building and mining, but also due to subsistence agriculture and collection of fuel wood. Indeed, as long as commercial interests are allowed access to these economically depressed areas of the world, and as long as populations of poor rural people continue to expand, tropical rainforests will continue to fall.
Your passion is commendable, but it’s just too little, too late.
Your anger at me is understandable, it’s a ‘Shoot the messenger’ reaction to unthinkably horrible news.
I’m just not one of those who can watch the world die and not say or do a damn thing, if you want to pretend that a planet adding 80 million people a year with no real plan as to how to feed them all the while paving over valuable farmland for urban development to house them and while deserts have become the fastest growing ecosystems is going to somehow turn out well (yeah, I know a bit run-on), well you go right ahead and believe that, good luck with your new house or whatever on Mars, at least now you were warned in no ambiguous way.
Go ahead and be angry if you think it might help somehow, you have every right to be upset (but not at me), we all do, a pied piper told us to wreck our planet and all we get is a plasma TV and an electric car, let’s hope there will still be places to drive to and real good stuff to watch.
Be angry, don’t be angry with me.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-talks-daily-destruction/
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/07/03/forget-paris-1600-new-coal-power-plants-built-around-the-world/
niu.edu – Urbanization (farmland loss)
Derek Stairs Ok.
The small islands like P.R. needs it the most, it is as simple like cremating the dead, or laying the burials up on the mountain of rock, and the lower valleys should be use for planting food.
Thanks Nature, very cool