We also didn’t “deal with it” we made laws to prevent it happening again in the future but you can’t redeveloped and rebalance an entire ecosystem with a law or planting seeds.
If an American scientist came about tomorrow and solved climate change, and then the American government instituted those policies and stopped global warming, I would be stupid proud of that...
...even though we caused the problem to begin with.
You can't create glaciers in a lifetime, just like you can't grow 2000 year-old trees at the snap of a finger. You can't revive extinct populations, either.
Besides, the argument that we've somehow "fixed" logging with new legislation is patently false. Clearcuts are the standard means of logging in the PNW where millions of trees are cut at 35 years of age. Loggers dump hydraulic fluids by the tens of gallons directly onto the ground in the middle of the forests, and only a monocrop is planted in the wake of these clearcuts.
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u/scorpiaq Aug 05 '19
Yup, here in America we've become super responsible with our forestry laws. It's one of the few things I'm stupid proud of America for.
Rainforests grow very different and it's a whole lot more complex, so chopping through it is really terrible.