New research shows that, instead of replanting rainforests, allowing them to bounce back naturally would store loads of carbon and water.
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Or you know, give the land back to indigenous peoples.
Judging from the article and abstract (not the study itself), I think it shows that natural reforestation is clearly better than humans doing arbitrary ad hoc reforestation. It does not seem to suggest that natural reforestation would outperform well designed strategically engineered reforestation.
But it’s interesting nonetheless to be able to conclude that reforestation that is not well thought out is worse than doing nothing. It also means that the greenwashing practice of just planting arbitrary trees to take credit for carbon offsetting is even worse than previously thought.
We will never be able to do something better than mother nature.
Yeah, natural immunity is much better than antibiotics and vaccines, which is why we invented them in the first… Oh no wait, that’s actually incredibly wrong.
I’m talking about ecosystems here but thanks for assuming I’m antivaxxer. Disease and sickness is also part of mother nature’s ecosystem controls, we’ve just kinds learned to beat that part.
My point was simply that there are a lot of things we do “better than nature”, though we are a part of nature anyways so the distinction is arbitrary.