alt Hacker NewsDidn’t read, but let me guess. We’re gaining more trees in countries like China where large scale project to prevent desertification exist or in places like Russia or Canada where warming climate is opening more space where trees can grow. All the while tropical countries like Brazil, Indonesia and Malaysia are losing tropical forest covers in ecological hotspots because of soybean or palm oil cultivation.
Tbh headlines like these do more damage to the climate change and ecological preservation conversation because they can be used to intentionally mislead what’s happening in the world.
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Commenters who don't read the article do more harm than good.
The planet is actually greening due to warmer temperatures and more co2.
>Tbh headlines like these do more damage to the climate change and ecological preservation conversation because they can be used to intentionally mislead what’s happening in the world.
The graphs show this pretty clearly.
But despite your misgivings the number of new trees growing 3 times faster than trees lost seems pretty good?
Like tropical countries have local issues for sure.
Honestly I prefer these bad headlines compared to "Lung of world gone we are dead in 15 minutes" sensationalism we usually get, and the data is good too.
> Didn’t read, but let me guess
Why should we let you guess?
What do any of us gain by reading the opinion of someone who admits to being ignorant and who isn't willing to change that by reading TFA?