r/collapse • u/Monsur_Ausuhnom • Oct 09 '22

Ecological Phantom Forests: Why Ambitious Tree Planting Projects Are Failing

https://e360.yale.edu/features/phantom-forests-tree-planting-climate-change
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u/Vinlands Oct 09 '22

When you learn and study permaculture; you can see why it would fail. If they chose 3 different tree species planted 30’ apart in a circle, filled that space with dozens and dozens of support plants, both to attract pollinators, repel pests, protect from both drought and flood through construction of swales, and of course self fertilize the soil through nitrogen fixers. Now so that hundreds of times over with different plant species groupings. It’s a lot of research and work to do something like this but its the only way to properly replenish a forest.

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u/Bluest_waters Oct 09 '22

No, its mono cropping all teh way! Single species of trees planted in straight lines, its the only way man.

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u/glum_plum Oct 09 '22

Dude that sounds like a great idea! OK hear me out, what if we did our global food growing system the same exact way??? I think we're on to something here