“We risk reducing natural ecosystems to one metric…"
TLDR Planting one species of tree instead of an ecosystem of multiple species of native trees is not a good idea.
But … this certificate says I’m a Scottish lord now…
Somewhat OT- When my mom was a little kid, there was an ad (I think a magazine ad?) that said for a certain small amount of money, you could own a square inch worth of land in Alaska. So she sent away the money and they sent her a deed for the square inch, along with a notice saying that for an additional fee, they would send her the square inch. So she paid it and they sent her a square inch of dirt in a box. I kind of wish she’d kept it.
I’ll have a side of industrial robber baron with that, please.
As you wish m’laird
I actually saw Neil Degrasse Tyson straight up lie about how plants take carbon out of the atmosphere.
He claimed that when plants die, all the carbon they absorbed gets released back into the atmosphere. That’s such complete bullshit and really cemented him as just another bill nye who doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
If oil is made primarily from dead plants and plants “release all the carbon they absorbed back into the atmosphere when they die,” then how are we getting even more carbon to release by burning oil?
He also lied about it being the fault of engineers for designing aqueducts that outlast their civilization.
So most oil comes from prehistoric algea. Most coal I believe comes from trees that evolved before fungus and bacteria could break down wood. Wood will no longer turn into coal because of fungus and bacteria.
