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Thread: Don't you think that more can be done to slow down habitat loss and deforestation?

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    As we sprawl outward, there is a large swath of corrupted land left behind in what is both run-down neighborhoods and industrial sites. Unless those areas are cleaned up, they will stay and be overgrown with weeds with little ecostructure value.

    I don't see them being cleaned up anytime soon but the responsible but otherwise costly thing to do would be to redevelop, but it's not likely to happen on a grand scale.
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    I think that the absolute number of people over the land is also a major contributor to the problem.

    In history, this factor alone brought down the civilization of the Easter Islands.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Captain Obvious View Post
    As we sprawl outward, there is a large swath of corrupted land left behind in what is both run-down neighborhoods and industrial sites. Unless those areas are cleaned up, they will stay and be overgrown with weeds with little ecostructure value.

    I don't see them being cleaned up anytime soon but the responsible but otherwise costly thing to do would be to redevelop, but it's not likely to happen on a grand scale.
    It is pretty crazy how much abandoned land exists out there just like what you described.

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    In point of fact, as I dissected nic's emotional but fact challenged tag line, there are considerably more trees in the U.S. than there were 100 years ago. Reforestation has happened as a result of the country being affluent enough to afford better environmental protection and private land owners reforesting of their own volition.

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    A. Quit screwing. Population drops.
    B. Mandatory abortions. Population drops and liberals love mandatory.
    C. Fully implement Obamacare and watch the population drop.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LiarSOB View Post
    I think that the absolute number of people over the land is also a major contributor to the problem.

    In history, this factor alone brought down the civilization of the Easter Islands.
    Quote Originally Posted by patrickt View Post
    A. Quit screwing. Population drops.
    B. Mandatory abortions. Population drops and liberals love mandatory.
    C. Fully implement Obamacare and watch the population drop.
    Yes, I was wondering what the "solution" to that "problem" would be as well.

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    History has shown that urbanization and education, particularly of women, causes populations to stabilize and drop.

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    Quote Originally Posted by countryboy View Post
    Yes, I was wondering what the "solution" to that "problem" would be as well.
    Hey what is in your avatar?

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    Quote Originally Posted by LiarSOB View Post
    Hey what is in your avatar?
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    Usin' AI to save forests...

    Researchers: Artificial Intelligence Can Help Fight Deforestation in Congo
    July 28, 2017 — A new technique using artificial intelligence to predict where deforestation is most likely to occur could help the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) preserve its shrinking rainforest and cut carbon emissions, researchers have said.
    Congo's rainforest, the world's second-largest after the Amazon, is under pressure from farms, mines, logging and infrastructure development, scientists say. Protecting forests is widely seen as one of the cheapest and most effective ways to reduce the emissions driving global warming. But conservation efforts in DRC have suffered from a lack of precise data on which areas of the country's vast territory are most at risk of losing their pristine vegetation, said Thomas Maschler, a researcher at the World Resources Institute (WRI). "We don't have fine-grain information on what is actually happening on the ground," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.


    To address the problem Maschler and other scientists at the Washington-based WRI used a computer algorithm based on machine learning, a type of artificial intelligence. The computer was fed inputs, including satellite derived data, detailing how the landscape in a number of regions, accounting for almost a fifth of the country, had changed between 2000 and 2014. The program was asked to use the information to analyze links between deforestation and the factors driving it, such as proximity to roads or settlements, and to produce a detailed map forecasting future losses.



    Logs lie next to a rusting barge on the banks of the Congo river, DRC.



    Overall the application predicted that woods covering an area roughly the size of Luxembourg would be cut down by 2025 — releasing 205 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere. The study improved on earlier predictions that could only forecast average deforestation levels in DRC over large swathes of land, said Maschler. "Now, we can say: 'actually the corridor along the road between these two villages is at risk'," Maschler said by phone late on Thursday.


    The analysis will allow conservation groups to better decide where to focus their efforts and help the government shape its land use and climate change policy, said scientist Elizabeth Goldman who co-authored the research. The DRC has pledged to restore 3 million hectares (11,583 square miles) of forest to reduce carbon emissions under the 2015 Paris Agreement, she said. But Goldman said the benefits of doing that would be outweighed by more than six times by simply cutting predicted forest losses by 10 percent.


    https://www.voanews.com/a/researcher...o/3963302.html

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