Global Habitat Loss
Re: Global Habitat Loss
"Agriculture".
And nothing will happen. Too much money behind it.
Suburban sprawl? Nothing will happen. Too much money behind it.
Like it or not, money rules the world, and until forests are assigned a value, they have no value. NY pays violent criminals not to hurt anyone; UN could pay countries (or better, landowners) not to cut forests.
As far as the nice organization to "study" the problem, it's just another scam to employ more people. With no teeth, the organization has no use.
And nothing will happen. Too much money behind it.
Suburban sprawl? Nothing will happen. Too much money behind it.
Like it or not, money rules the world, and until forests are assigned a value, they have no value. NY pays violent criminals not to hurt anyone; UN could pay countries (or better, landowners) not to cut forests.
As far as the nice organization to "study" the problem, it's just another scam to employ more people. With no teeth, the organization has no use.
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Re: Global Habitat Loss
The inexorable march of "civilization". I was a part of it as a contractor. But we built cute houses.
I live next to a subdivision that used to be a forested gully, and if you had seen it 40, 30,or 20 years ago,
you'd have thought- that gully will never change, it's too steep to build on. 160 houses later, the only
"trees" here come out of 1 gallon pots. No rabbits, no chipmunks, no moths. Just some tame deer
and random squirrels..the original trees, they don't even get the dignity of being sawn down with a chainsaw, some
large guy in a backhoe pushes them over like matchsticks.
They dig out chunks of the side of a 22 degree slope, haul it off, slam in a house, then bring in boulders to "control"
the erosion. It is the money, and we haven't been the only ones to try and fight it, I guess we're lucky the city
council here is only interested in kissing tourist butt.
I live next to a subdivision that used to be a forested gully, and if you had seen it 40, 30,or 20 years ago,
you'd have thought- that gully will never change, it's too steep to build on. 160 houses later, the only
"trees" here come out of 1 gallon pots. No rabbits, no chipmunks, no moths. Just some tame deer
and random squirrels..the original trees, they don't even get the dignity of being sawn down with a chainsaw, some
large guy in a backhoe pushes them over like matchsticks.
They dig out chunks of the side of a 22 degree slope, haul it off, slam in a house, then bring in boulders to "control"
the erosion. It is the money, and we haven't been the only ones to try and fight it, I guess we're lucky the city
council here is only interested in kissing tourist butt.
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