Most of Europe's original natural forests have been transformed for agriculture and managed forests producing energy, paper, and timber. The few remaining "old-growth" natural forests are relics of the past that illustrate how forests would have looked in the absence of human management. They can, therefore, tell us how people have transformed forests.

Most of Europe’s original natural forests have been transformed for agriculture and managed forests producing energy, paper, and timber. The few remaining “old-growth” natural forests are relics of the past that illustrate how forests would have looked in the absence of human management. They can, therefore, tell us how people have transformed forests.

From Earth News - Earth Science News, Earth Science, Climate Change via This RSS Feed.

  • MrSulu@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 hour ago

    The forests are a tiny proportion of carbon storage. The oceans are still ignored. HOWEVER, we still need to do this and do it everywhere.

  • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
    1·
    2 hours ago

    Storing carbon in forests is a band-aid fix at best. Even if all the world’s greenery was restored as much as possible, that wouldn’t even bring us close to reversing the damage that’s already been done. The fossil fuels we’ve burned have released carbon that was stored and built up over millions of years, and it would take millions of years for all of it to be naturally stored again. It might not even be possible in modern climate conditions. Much of it was deposited in the carboniferous period, when earth’s climate and the life on earth were very different and much more conducive to depositing large amounts of carbon underground.