Re:The Planet Now Has More Trees Than It Did 35 Years Ago
by IkmoIkmo on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @08:43PM
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If a tree was fungible, it'd be great news.
In reality, we're replacing trees that you could let 5 people wrap their arms around with 'trees' that you can wrap a size z pants' belt around, replacing biodiversity with monoculture palm trees.
That having been said, I agree with the sentiment. There is actually a lot of great news that we don't report on, like child mortality or severe poverty dropping very sharply. Ourworldindata.org is a great place to start.
But in terms of this story, it's not part of the set of good news stories.
In reality, we're replacing trees that you could let 5 people wrap their arms around with 'trees' that you can wrap a size z pants' belt around, replacing biodiversity with monoculture palm trees.
That having been said, I agree with the sentiment. There is actually a lot of great news that we don't report on, like child mortality or severe poverty dropping very sharply. Ourworldindata.org is a great place to start.
But in terms of this story, it's not part of the set of good news stories.