Kill grass, plant trees?

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Friendly reminder to anyone reading that forests can deliver all of these benefits and food at the same time.

As long as no sentient beings were used without their consent (e.g. to extract genetic material), then I see no ethical issue from a vegan point of view. I do have to question though, on a finite planet with an ever-worsening ecological catastrophe, whether developing such products is an irresponsible use of time and energy and material resources.

I guess only the people at the London Times know.

And let’s not forget the massive amount of deforestation for growing the feed crops that they use. It’s an ecological catastrophe at every level.

Use the best plant for the job. Usually that is a native plant, but not always, especially when growing food. “Some day, people will forget that durians came from Asia.”

syntropic agriculture

If you want to avoid supporting industrial agriculture’s land-grabbing violence and ecological destruction without sacrificing the nutritional and gustatory marvels of fruits such as these, then growing your own veganic permaculture food forest is the ideal solution.

The reclaiming of Darién national park should help protect one of the region’s largest carbon sinks and the Indigenous groups and many animal species that live there. It also comes as tropical forests across Central America are collapsing.

“Nicaragua is gone. Mexico, Guatemala – everything is going now. If you look from Google Earth we are down to these little green patches. It’s the last 10% of what was there 100 years ago. So if we don’t get it right real soon …” Morgan says, trailing off, preferring not to elaborate on the implications of losing the greatest intact rainforest north of the Amazon.

Chilling. Truly a “guys, I think we’re fucked” thought.

Its thorny protective canopy supports biodiversity and helps alleviate flooding risks from summer thunder-showers through effective water uptake.

Diverse trees also provide benefits to the garden because different species have different root architecture, which improves the health and structure of the soil.

layered canopies, ranging from ground covers to herbaceous perennials, shrubs and trees of various sizes, which has the benefit of maximising species diversity in limited spaces, and providing protective benefits against climate extremes (hot and cold) offered by this approach.

more benefits of planting native forest trees

For the automotive industry, I think that they mean Interior parts that aren’t exposed to the weather.

Yeah, those are some stilt roots.

As a logical conclusion of this course of action of only consuming a diet of basically fruits and humans who died naturally, the hivemind acknowledges that they will eventually run out of food and starve to death

I’m not familiar with this fictional world, so I may be missing something obvious, but is there something preventing them from planting more fruit trees?

In addition to Flamengo Park, the talipot palms can be found in Rio’s Botanical Garden, where they are also flowering.

That’s because they were brought across from southern Asia together, have the same metabolism and have been exposed to the same Brazilian rhythm of daylight, according to Aline Saavedra, a biologist at Rio de Janeiro State University.

Saavedra said that environmental laws strictly regulate transporting species native from another continent, although talipot palms are not invasive due to their slow development.

The interest the phenomenon has generated is positive and could encourage a sense of belonging for human beings to preserve rather than destroy the environment, according to Saavedra.

The palms themselves don’t make for such an impressive story beyond being pretty, but this is an important point. People often conflate “foreign” with “invasive” or “harmful” when it comes to plants and even to other humans, but on what basis? In some cases, sure, plants can grow out of control with no natural competition or certain groups of people can refuse to live peacefully alongside people who don’t share their background, but in most cases, migrants are harmless. Regulating and restricting migration or transport of plant material is an attack on personal freedom. These palms are an excellent example of a harmless species from a foreign land adjusting to their new home and co-existing peacefully with an untold diversity of plants, both native and non-native, in the park and the botanical garden, yet the government still discriminates against them due to their ancestors’ foreign origin. Are we not all native to the Earth? Do we not all have the birthright to move freely? If someone wants to bring seeds of a beautiful plant (which takes decades to reach sexual maturity!) from one place to another, who are they harming?

Perhaps seeing these towering palms flowering so prolifically and then bearing fruit may inspire even a few people to recognise the interconnectedness of life on Earth and that the divisions are human social constructs. If farmers in Brasil can grow soya from China, and if vineyards in California can grow grapes from Italy, and if hardcore fruit people in Japan can grow watermelons from East Africa, and if peasants in Ireland can grow potatoes from the Andes, and if all of these introduced plants can become so thoroughly accepted by the local people as to become economically important, then surely we can extend that acceptance to other plants, and other organisms including sentient beings, as well.

The closest cyclone to the equator was the 2001 Tropical Storm Vamei which formed at just 1.4°N. Cyclone Senyar formed at 3.8°N.

The safe zone at the equator is narrow. If choosing to settle near the coast, there really isn’t much choice when it comes to latitude.

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I can’t speak for anyone else, but to me that seemed to imply that you were suggesting it as a solution that might be worth trying, not as something worth trying that might be a solution. Language is tricky.

That’s what I thought too, but I could be wrong.

Fair enough, but it would make sense to include a “this may or may not help” when suggesting something that requires setting up a new account like this would.