| ▲ | A_D_E_P_T 3 days ago |
| > (it's pretty much lost already, isn't it?) Not even close. Look at satellite imaging. Not only is the Amazon far from lost, the jungles in Africa/Borneo/PNG all look to be doing surprisingly okay. |
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| ▲ | w4yai 3 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| It still got damaged a lot : https://www.maapprogram.org/amazon-tipping-point/ |
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| ▲ | palata 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| The theory is that it can reach a point where it won't be able to survive, and therefore it will die. We are around that limit. It may well be that it has already passed it and therefore it will die. I didn't mean "it is not there anymore", I meant "we won't be able to preserve it, it may already be too late for that". |
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| ▲ | xyzsparetimexyz 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | How is the Amazon going to die? Don't plants kinda like co2? Do you think it'll just become a desert somehow or something? | | |
| ▲ | wolvoleo 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Deforestation causes more extreme weather like floods and landslides which also remove fertile soil, and trees don't regenerate quickly enough to prevent that from happening. And global warming also increases weather instability at a rate nature can't adapt to. So even the existing forests will have a harder time. | |
| ▲ | ben_w a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | Plants need a lot of things, not just CO2; what they are limited by varies from case to case, and conversion to farmland can cause permanent damage which may indeed turn it into a desert. Fortunately, careful manipulation can reverse desertification. |
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| ▲ | A_D_E_P_T 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Where can I find details on this theory? | | |
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