Message from @Lord Zedd
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there used to be a forest that ran right down the middle of Australia that helped water travel very far inland that got destroyed by the Aboriginals, I'd personally love to see that rebuilt
efforts for reforestation and conversation have been tried in the Amazon as well, Steve Irwin had an interesting way of doing it by basically buying up large chunks of land to protect it
That's excellent. I know there have been some good results from experimental cattle driving practices in Africa too where they mimic the behavior of predators to force the cattle to clump up and move around more frequently--it gives the landscape more time to recover between being trampled and grazed and it helps restore arid grasslands.
which works great until a government comes along and says fuck you we're taking that land anyway and selling it
I would do something like that here if I were a billionaire or king of America
Buy up millions of acres and designate them as Terrain Protected Zones
It works great for fisheries, no reason it wouldn't work for land too
America I believe has as many trees now as when the Europeans first arrived
Our extensive National Forest system is a good start
I don't think so
There are accounts of explorers being able to walk across the whole continental US without leaving the forest in the 1700s
We've got some pretty big prairies in the middle these days
We might be close though
And prairie is good anyway
Doesn't all have to be trees
I think overall we're trending towards a more sustainable economy without the massive government overreach but we're going to end up with government policy slowing it down and taking credit for it anyway
Probably
Kind of like with racial discrimination I think the culture pulls ahead, then the government steps in and passes a law that is no longer necessary and takes all the credit.
me sounding like a hardcore Libertarian today 😄
Well I am not an extremist Libertarian but we've swung too hard the other direction so we need to pull that way.
i do wonder how much progress we're making overall in terms of conservation etc that the leftists actually know about
it'd probably make a good man on the campus segment
and the real progress will be made when someone finds a way to prioritize rubbish
Do you mean profitize?
Yeah that would be great.
oh yeah profitize
stupid spell checker
it red lined it and changed it and I didn't notice it
I'm hoping the microbes evolve to eat all our plastics
especially that one big lump of plastic
In the ocean?
ya
even as bad as that plastic lump is, the Jellyfish there are thriving
Well they like the water warming up
Cleaning up the plastic would save a lot of sea turtles and birds
one potential idea is to take the plastics and recycle them into nests
if it's not going to break down for a long long time use that stability
The problem is not what to do with the plastic, it's how to collect it economically in the first place.
It's not actually in a cohesive lump, it's just a huge region with lots of plastic bits floating loose
tourism could help in some way with that in creating a profit incentive for it