To many people, restoration means planting as many trees as possible to offset carbon emissions. Unfortunately, this view of restoration can be extremely dangerous because tree planting often gets used as an excuse to avoid cutting greenhouse gas emissions, which continue to threaten life as we know it. If the fossil fuel industry continues to spend almost a trillion dollars on expanding new oil and gas operations, even 10 planets full of trees could not offset the devastation that would result. These monoculture 'carbon farms' are not the restoration of nature. In fact, they are often the destruction of it.
#ecosystem restoration #tree planting #carbon emissions #nature destruction #U.N. Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
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