• H2207@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Finally some good news. One key dependency of the ground I, everyone, walks on and the air I, everyone, breathes is having something done to preserve it.

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      9 months ago

      The limiting factor isn’t that they run out of trees; it’s that if you cut enough down the local climate flips, and stops being moist enough to support the plant community which lives there now. This has happened locally in a few parts of the Amazon.

      They’re somewhere near that point, but what’s changing things is that a different government got elected.

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    9 months ago

    That sounds good and it means we’re still deforesting the Amazon