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Quote by: Pooeypants I don't know where you've gotten your misinformation from but I think you need to look up the facts; we're losing huge amounts of Trees in the rest of the world. I'm pretty sure we can trust NASA when it tells us that Global deforestation is a problem.
Just what exactly do you mean by burying forests to remove the carbon? Where will you move all the wildlife? How about instead, we use less fossil fuels instead? |
Well, you don't need a satellite to see this, just fly across the U.S. sometime and you'll see the increased vegitation in otherwise arid areas where people have settled. Nevada and Arizona are good examples.
Of course people use lumber, but we also plant trees and grow many things as well. We've turned areas of land that were basically desert into vegetated areas. Lumber companies replant behind the areas they've harvested etc. and though we cause some fires, these don't generally become huge because we limit the spread. We redirect and water and save much of it from becoming runoff into the ocean, and use that water to grow food or just for people waternig the plants around their house. Arizona and Nevada are very arid and generally don't have much vegitation, except where people have settled. If oil deposits were due to decomposed organic matter that was trapped under the ground, then bringing it up is not too far off from recycling it.
Sure, there might be fewer areas of old vegetation but there are plenty of newer ones as well. So, yes, there are areas where trees have been or are being cut down but there are also new places where they are growing or being protected from fire or artificially planted and cultuvated.