They’re probably doing some of this already, but maybe they could put together a concentrated, comprehensive, and resourceful way to produce fast growing trees by testing many varieties of trees and using every method, like grafting and genetic engineering, if you can genetically engineer trees,
and grow these trees with great care using the best fertilizers and selecting trees that are mostly trunks and have few branches and leaves, and produce as much lumber as we could without destroying the earth’s forests.
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Yes. You could do it tomorrow but there’s a lot of things in the way economically and thus politically.
Seriously. We lost a lot of knowledge over the years from primarily European expansion. The middle American culture had a method of turning human waste into fertilizer. We Lost that.
The burning of the Library of Alexandria. Lost all that.
It’s not a novel idea but the economics works against you because your competing with the logging industry. Got to make money. The whole chemical industry…yeah works well now but will it turn your dirt to crap 100 years later…
Yes. We should be better at what we do with the earth but no new ideas I’m sorry to say. The world works in non mysterious ways unfortunately.
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There’s more trees on earth than stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
There are an estimated 3.5 trillion trees on earth and anywhere’s from 100-400 billion stars in the Milky Way.
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it’s a good proposal, but it’s a time investment, i think. part of the reason loggers go for the Earth’s rainforests and other expansive woods is because of their age; older, stronger trees provide much more value than young wood. same goes with bamboo.
what do you propose to this issue? do you think you could accelerate the aging of trees, or is it just up to time itself?
Yes. That’s the idea, to try to produce more lumber fast and cheap.
I don’t know if they’re really cutting down the majority of trees for lumber… I’ve heard that a lot of the Amazon rainforest destruction is due to slash-and-burn so they can use that land to make pasture for animals that are used to feed humans. They burn the forest and the burnt plants make the soil very fertile… temporarily. Then when the soil is exhausted they just move on to the next patch of forest. America used to be covered in trees, but the colonists cleared it all away to make farm land.
They say that we have cut down 1/5 of the Amazon Rain Forest, and if we cut down another 1/5 the entire ecosystem will be destroyed. They call the Amazon Rain Forest the “lungs of the world” because it produces 15% of the world’s oxygen. … Also, Anarctica melting, and it contains way more CO2 than the Amazon.
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I think they are clearing the way for industrial agriculture. At least that is what it looks like in the photographs on the internet.
Yeah well probably false.
Heavy rainforest absorbs more oxygen than it produces due to the leaf matter. But. It’s so good for bio diversity of species and stuff and it does contribute…but saying that it does contribute to oxygen is false.
It adds to the problem and burning it adds to another problem.
It’s kind of scary…I live in an Arctic area and we’re heating up twice as fast as the rest of the world and in just 14 years up here I can see the changes. It’s sad to see how the permafrost is melting and seeing the polar bears lose their habitat. Every year the Winters are warmer and the Summers are breaking records. It’s very depressing, especially now that the Chinook salmon and King crabs are disappearing. I hate to admit it, but it’s not stopping me from getting in my car and driving to the grocery store or heating my apartment with fossil fuels.
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doesn’t most of the world’s breathable oxygen come from algae?
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