How do you save a rainforest? Leave it alone. (grist.org)

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New research shows that, instead of replanting rainforests, allowing them to bounce back naturally would store loads of carbon and water.

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[-] FireRetardant@lemmy.world -3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

We will never be able to do something better than the way mother nature does it.

[-] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

Yeah, natural immunity is much better than antibiotics and vaccines, which is why we invented them in the first... Oh no wait, that's actually incredibly wrong.

[-] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I'm talking about ecosystems here but thanks for assuming I'm antivaxxer. Disease and sickness is also part of mother nature's ecosystem controls, we've just kinds learned to beat that part.

[-] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

My point was simply that there are a lot of things we do "better than nature", though we are a part of nature anyways so the distinction is arbitrary.

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