Scientists Studying Earth’s Trees Issued a Stark Warning to Humanity

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1. Shits fucked yo

2. How many stark warnings do we need before something meaningful is done?

   One more.

3. It seems that politics is all distraction these days. No action on the real issues like climate change.

4. >In 2021, the [*State of the World’s Trees*](https://www.bgci.org/news-events/scientists-issue-warning-to-humanity-that-tree-species-extinction-could-bring-economic-as-well-as-ecosystem-crisis/) report revealed a startling finding: one-third of all tree species are on the brink of extinction, totaling around 17,500 endangered tree species.

   The last couple years have been much hotter than when that study concluded. I spend so much time cutting down big dead trees and clearing undergrowth, in the hope of helping younger trees and other mature trees survive. But it is fundamentally a different environment than what they evolved in, and you can see the stress they are under.

5. If you read this article, you’ll see how massive these chestnut trees were. The nuts were so good! Scientists are trying to bring them back
   ,[https://tacf.org/history-american-chestnut/](https://tacf.org/history-american-chestnut/)

6. I heard the warnings years ago.

   The United Nations used to warn us that “next to nuclear war, the growing human population was our number one threat to continued existence”. They no longer talk about that as capitalism has taken control of the UN but I remember it well and had only one kid. We can’t add more.

   Nearly every climate problem is also related to human population and growing. The human population has more than doubled since the UN gave that warning.

7. I was just in r/Economics and everyone was downplaying climate change lol

8. But if we save the trees how do the billionaires keep all their money?!?

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