I once had a sweet, brown pit bull mix named Thembi, who had impressive musculature and a magnificent nose. Often on our walks, I would feel the leash go taut and know she’d sniffed out something tantalizing, likely a squirrel or a rabbit. She would snuffle excitedly, muzzle to the ground, tracing her quarry’s skittish […]
Compare and contrast the methods needed for harvesting a real forest vs a monoculture forest. You’ll expend much more than twice the carbon harvesting a real forest vs a farm “forest”.
I’d much rather see a monoculture farm harvested for fuel or lumber than an old-growth forest.
I don’t know. But maybe it should be word of the week, month, year or decade given that the concept seems to not have been stressed enough in education and people constantly miss the issues created by monocultures, wether it’s soil damage, higher need for fertilizers, susceptibility to diseases or parasites (reqiring again more chemicals) or the simple fact that plants for monocultures are rarely chosen based on perfect climatic conditions (so even more at risk with changing climate). Ffs… regarding trees in particular the ones planted are often just picked for their straight trunks, so the wood is easier to sell later…
It’s never been about climate, it’s always about the money.
There are a lot of “forests” that are actually stupid monoculture wood farms. So even alleged forest protection can be purely about the money…
Is monoculture the word of the week on Lemmy? Let’s be clear, carbon dioxide doesn’t care what kind of tree converts it to oxygen.
Monculture only convert about half the Co2 that a real forest would.
Compare and contrast the methods needed for harvesting a real forest vs a monoculture forest. You’ll expend much more than twice the carbon harvesting a real forest vs a farm “forest”.
I’d much rather see a monoculture farm harvested for fuel or lumber than an old-growth forest.
How much CO2 does a solar panel convert?
I doesn’t need to convert CO2 when it helps to produce less CO2 in the first place.
I don’t know. But maybe it should be word of the week, month, year or decade given that the concept seems to not have been stressed enough in education and people constantly miss the issues created by monocultures, wether it’s soil damage, higher need for fertilizers, susceptibility to diseases or parasites (reqiring again more chemicals) or the simple fact that plants for monocultures are rarely chosen based on perfect climatic conditions (so even more at risk with changing climate). Ffs… regarding trees in particular the ones planted are often just picked for their straight trunks, so the wood is easier to sell later…