TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoAmazon drought: 'We've never seen anything like this'www.bbc.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up1157arrow-down14
arrow-up1153arrow-down1external-linkAmazon drought: 'We've never seen anything like this'www.bbc.co.ukTheTimeKnife@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square6fedilink
minus-squareripcord@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down1·edit-29 months agoThere’s lots of evidence of domestication, cultivation, tending over the last 13,000+ years. But calling it a “planted forest” - like as if the majority of plants out in the Amazon were seeded/planted manually by humans - seems like a huge stretch.
minus-squareburgersc12@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·edit-29 months agoAccording to this paper, about 1/5 by people
minus-squareripcord@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down1·9 months agoOk, but that’s still really far off from being a “planted forest”.
There’s lots of evidence of domestication, cultivation, tending over the last 13,000+ years. But calling it a “planted forest” - like as if the majority of plants out in the Amazon were seeded/planted manually by humans - seems like a huge stretch.
According to this paper, about 1/5 by people
Ok, but that’s still really far off from being a “planted forest”.