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Nice little PDF from forestry service about Southern Burns https://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs/rmrs_gtr292/1989_wade.pdf
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Were we in 1819, then I would agree. Unfortunately, we're in 2019, and it's already happened. You're stuck with homogenous forests.
This is incorrect. There are still old-growth forests, such as the Amazon, but they're still being clear-cut. It's very, very simple: stop doing that. No, we can't easily get back the old-growth forests in the US, as that ship has sailed, but there's more to the planet than the US, and we can stop causing even more damage. But we don't want to.
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Were we in 1819, then I would agree. Unfortunately, we're in 2019, and it's already happened. You're stuck with homogenous forests.
This is incorrect. There are still old-growth forests, such as the Amazon, but they're still being clear-cut. It's very, very simple: stop doing that. No, we can't easily get back the old-growth forests in the US, as that ship has sailed, but there's more to the planet than the US, and we can stop causing even more damage. But we don't want to.
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This is incorrect. There are still old-growth forests, such as the Amazon, but they're still being clear-cut. It's very, very simple: stop doing that. No, we can't easily get back the old-growth forests in the US, as that ship has sailed, but there's more to the planet than the US, and we can stop causing even more damage. But we don't want to.
Brazil isn't going to stop so do we invade a sovereign nation to get them to stop in order to benefit the world?
Forests that have been clear cut have a different structure from old forests and burn very differently. Most California fires were of the former kind. In “Young” forests grown in the place of clear cut “old forests”, the shrubbery grows before the trees and is very thick. The trees are not that high and the branches are close to the ground. These forests get completely annihilated by fire. Old forests have tall trees…
It sounds to me like there's a very simple solution to this problem: just don't clear-cut forests. Of course, as usual with stupid humans, when there's a very simple solution to a problem, they absolutely refuse to do it, usually because some selfish person is benefiting from the action that's causing the problem, and countless other people are perfectly happy to enable that person.
on top of destroying people's homes and lives, what used to be the best couple months of summer are pretty much ruined for any type of outdoor activity from Mexico to Alaska and la push to Regina.
It is already hazy around vancouver due to the big fires in Alberta. We also had a fire get out of control in early April when the ground is supposed to be super wet still.
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Brazil isn't going to stop so do we invade a sovereign nation to get them to stop in order to benefit the world?
If you ranked all wars humanity has fought from most justified to least, I expect your proposed war would be rather near the top.