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Yes, this means a ton of carbon ends up in the atmosphere instead of in the trees. The right move would be thinning and prescribed burns, but this administration isn’t going to do that.

  • FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Trump is speedrunning to aim for the lowest biodiversity index in North America.

    Maybe if we stop ridiculously subisidising corn everywhere, some that gets thrown away because we have way too much, we could replace a couple dozen sq km of corn fields with more sustainable agroforestry, and thereby massively increase our logging output, instead of yk, cutting down the last wildlife sanctuaries? Not holding my breath tho.

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      i comfort myself with the knowledge that most worlds are totally dead

      zero wildlife is the normal state of things

      extinction is only sad to the survivors, and soon enough there will be none left to mourn