Re:In the Philippines, Dynamite Fishing Decimates Entire Oce...
by lopmotr on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @12:43AM
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Surprising! But now it sounds like rich people are regrowing the forests that the poor people of earlier centuries destroyed. Evidence that rich people help the environment and poor people harm it. Still no sign of the harm that the grandparent claimed rich people are doing to the environment.
Re:In the Philippines, Dynamite Fishing Decimates Entire Oce...
by orwin on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @04:44AM
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England might have been lucky enough (blessed with rain and all). Southern France and Greece, not so much, and will probably never recover pre-roman empire forests.
Re:In the Philippines, Dynamite Fishing Decimates Entire Oce...
by ddnb on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @06:17AM
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If there's not enough rain to sustain a forest, then even should they have been left untouched in antiquity they wouldn't be there anymore now either right?
Re:In the Philippines, Dynamite Fishing Decimates Entire Oce...
by ptaipale on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @07:30AM
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Where I live, you can't really destroy a forest. You can hack it down and lay concrete over the ground; if you then leave it there, in a matter of decades or centuries it'll be a forest again, if you don't regularly weed it out and hack it down again.
If climate changes - as it has changed in the Mediterranean, prior to industrialisation - that's then different.
Same's happening in many countries in Europe. I have a picture of my birth home, taken in 1903 from a nearby hill. The landscape is mostly bare, almost everything except the actual fields is used for cattle. Now you can't take a picture like that. Almost everything is covered by a forest, but you can't see it from the trees growing on the hill.