Message from @brownin
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Yea. Thanks to capitalism. As the wood industry is planting more trees than what they cut down
Well...
That and the introduction of foreign trees to new areas
That problem is not new. We have done that shit for ages
Like cedar trees grow way further west than were most oaks and pecan trees do
I just find myself questioning everything I hear when I’m fixing an issue in a class 😅
So places once lacking trees have them
That and wiping out the bison helped
Wiping out bison was an environmental benefit
Ironically
It allowed for more forestation in the lower great plains
Alot of that area in the middle of texas didnt have trees...Now its covered in oak that the bison trampled and ate before it could grow, and the european introduced trees like cedar
Also,south of san Antonio was once mostly desert and more like a brushland...now alot of it is partially forested
Everything between the San Antonio river and the nueces was desert/Savannah like
Now its green
It's not till you get south of the nueces that you hit brushland
Just as an example as to how we have more trees
You ecosia this 😅 and you get one article saying more trees then another saying less trees then another saying more but of the wrong type
We have more but evasive species is a big reason why
Sooo
The last one is kinda right
They dumb down stuff too much at school, the children are getting a biased picture because of this
Just go back to the Cretaceous Period where there were thicker warmer rainforests jungles everywhere
Killing off the bison and introducing invasive trees that could grow in dryer climates were 2 important factors in the us having more trees
We have more oxygen now than then
Who gave us more
It was like 10-15% then vs. 21% now
In the carboniferous it was near 30%
But the heavy oxygen levels meant extreme forest fires, that capped it essentially...Because shit would burn until the oxygen fell back below 20
@brownin plants and dieoffs
Broo is the truest of the Anprims
Wasn’t the largest extinction event ever when cyanobacteria evolved and created a shitload of Oxygen?
This is all news to me
Also isn’t something like 80% of the world’s daily biosynthesized oxygen from Algal Blooms?
The nain bad thing about using wood is the fact that they’re carbon stores