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Re:Humanity Has Flipped the Amazon Forest from Carbon Sink t... by redpiller on Thursday July 15, 2021 @07:39AM (#27843598)
Even NASA concedes that the last 20 years has seen the planet become greener. Humans planting trees for reforestation have almost nothing to do with that trend. People are trying to claim credit for things they have nothing to do with. The surface area of the earth is absolutely massive. Humans likely occupy less than 2% of it. Even if all humanity was mobilozed to planting trees 24/7 with the most advanced machines imaginable, our labor would mean nothing compared to what birds could do on their own by merely shitting on new pieces of fertile soil and thus inadvertantly planting the plant seeds that they consumed a few hours earlier.

Birds do more for nature using only their assholes than humanity could do with their entire beings... The birds don't even need to think about it.

Re:Humanity Has Flipped the Amazon Forest from Carbon Sink t... by lm28469 on Thursday July 15, 2021 @08:27AM (#27843955)
> Even NASA concedes that the last 20 years has seen the planet become greener. Humans planting trees for reforestation have almost nothing to do with that trend.

Are you sure, from nasa.gov itself:

> which is thought to be due to intensive agriculture to feed growing populations and ambitious tree-planting programs

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/greening-of-the-earth-mitigates...

> Birds do more for nature using only their assholes than humanity could do with their entire beings..

And what do humans do to birds ?

> Human activity is the greatest cause of bird extinction around the world. The top human causes of bird extinction involve: the increased human population, destruction of habitat (through development for habitation, logging, animal and single-crop agriculture, and invasive plants), ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_extinction