As the climate changes, cities scramble to find trees that will survive: “Everybody is looking for the magic tree.”
As the climate changes, cities scramble to find trees that will survive: “Everybody is looking for the magic tree.”
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As the climate changes, cities scramble to find trees that will survive
Sigh.
The swarm of Bradford pear trees, wisterias, English ivies, porcelain berry, barberry, and autumn olive trees (and many others) choking my surroundings don't give me happy feelings about this.
In other news, you have a little cake on Voyager - you've been on Lemmy for one year today.
Look.
Human beings deliberately introducing species to foreign environments has been a long history of ecological disaster.
Ecosystems are so immeasurably complex that no one can guarantee what introducing a non-native species will do. Look at the Bradford pear, which was supposed to be a sterile hybrid.
And finally, the whole point of this program is to introduce species that are better adapted to surviving climate change than native species. Do you know what we call species that come into an area and survive and thrive better than the native species? Invasives. This project is literally creating invasive species - replacing native species with species that will supposedly survive better, on the argument that the native species will die out anyway with climate change so we may as well remake the ecosystem and see what happens.
Blind, stupid, arrogance. I'm embarrassed for humanity.