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| quote: | Originally posted by EvilTree
My main concern is not global warming, but stuff like pollution, deforestation, etc. Things that we can do something about. |
One reason I don't miss Essex County just outside Windsor is that the place is just so damn fuckin ugly. The fact that that county has lost 97% of its tree cover in just over 120 years is disgraceful, and when people actually do plant trees there, they always plant usually one kind which then usually gets killed by insects or disease. As someone who works with trees for a living ( not there anymore, I gave up on the place since it seemed like not too many people cared ) I would never recommend planting too many of the same tree in one place, since there s over 100 different kinds that can be used. That county has one of the worst environmental records in North America, and most native species cannot survive that type of natural habitat fragmentation. While I lived there I was actually lucky to see a Massassauga Rattlesnake & a Blue Racer, and a Bobcat several years ago, because those animals are surely extinct there by now, and likely forever. As for deforestation, it has been showed to cause local droughts in parts of the Amazon where the forest have been removed, and I suspect is at least partially responsible for the severe lack of rainfall in Southwest Ontario, Indiana & Illinois & much of Ohio last summer, as in 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002 & last summer. One study shows the combined deforestation in all those regions interrupts the northward movement of summer monsoonal moisture & resulting convective thunderstorms.
Deforestation and the resulting loss of the natural hydrological cycle has also been found to be the cause of the Sahara deserts expansion over the past 50 years in Africa resulting in mass starvations. In China the government has issued war on the Gobi Desert and is now planting millions of trees to try to reclaim all the land that has already been lost to the desert's expansion. That is currently the largest reforestation project worldwide.
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Nathan Fake - Outhouse (Valentino Kanzyani Remix) 
