Trees haven't been around for 4.6 billion years. They've only been around for about 370 million years. EDIT: As a sidenote, why weren't all these Earth Day posts posted on Earth Day?
Also another note. Most deforestation has nothing to do with wood and trees as a resource. It has to do with creating more space for housing and farm land, especially in 3rd world countries. It's pretty well know that the world has a carrying capacity, but with technology, it continually rises. We are able to build more high rises in areas we couldn't previous develop, cause in point some where like LA. This fact is full of bias. If it had stopped after the first few sentences the statement would have been correct
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· 6 years ago
Except that we haven't been here for only four hours and the industrial revolution did not start a minute ago. We did not fuck up the ecosystem in a minute. It took a little while.
I'm all for convincing people to save the planet or whatever but this is kinda stupid. I think anyone who agrees that climate change is a thing knows that its bad and doesn't need some weird scale to explain that to them.
Urmmm... There's more forested land in the world today than at any time in history. Trees are being planted at a much faster rate than they're being cut, and have been for about the past 15 or 20 seconds (according to this silly scale).
We're controlling the hugest raging forest fires more than at any time in history. Not sure how much to trust a post that gets the most important fact wrong, mistakenly saying there's less forest now than years ago.
I'm all for convincing people to save the planet or whatever but this is kinda stupid. I think anyone who agrees that climate change is a thing knows that its bad and doesn't need some weird scale to explain that to them.