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How do you save a rainforest? Leave it alone. (grist.org)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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New research shows that, instead of replanting rainforests, allowing them to bounce back naturally would store loads of carbon and water.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

We will never be able to do something better than the way mother nature does it.

[–] Peruvian_Skies 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, natural immunity is much better than antibiotics and vaccines, which is why we invented them in the first... Oh no wait, that's actually incredibly wrong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I'm talking about ecosystems here but thanks for assuming I'm antivaxxer. Disease and sickness is also part of mother nature's ecosystem controls, we've just kinds learned to beat that part.

[–] Peruvian_Skies 2 points 3 months ago

My point was simply that there are a lot of things we do "better than nature", though we are a part of nature anyways so the distinction is arbitrary.