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Many of the primary climate changes we see do set off domino effects like this

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According to a new study from Yale University, climate change could lead to a decrease in the biomass of tropical forests, resulting in an increase in carbon emissions that could accelerate global warming. The research team used historical data and satellite maps to study above-ground biomass in the tropics of South America, Africa, and Asia. They found that if greenhouse gas emissions from human activity are higher, losses of stored carbon could nearly double by 2100. The researchers hope that these findings will help strengthen the case for current climate policy initiatives, such as the Paris Climate Agreement, that seek to limit global warming and preserve tropical forests.

It's not like this is unexpected. Just denied and ignored like every other aspect of the climate crisis.

It's cute that they still hope it will change anything.

It’s also cute that they assume mankind won’t have cut every single tree down long before 2100 in the name of profit.

Also as an individual who is not a billionaire and not living in a location where this is happening... There is effectively nothing I can do about it.

"It's the cascade.." -Prax

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What could we do personally to decrease deforestation?

This is awesome, I wish I didn't have to work for a living so I could sit back and enjoy watching the human race drive itself to extinction.

Are you still consuming animal products? Most of this is due to that.

instead I have to watch it from my office

Avoid products that contain agriculture heavy products like palm oil and basically any plantation crop. Please do understand that unlike this sort of deforestation, logging for the most part is done in a sustainable way in the United States at least. In fact a lot of issues we’re having right now are due to loss of early successional habitat from the frantic tree planting done by the logging industries back in the day.

That's not even close to being true.

Any plantation crop? As in all plant agriculture?

I suppose I mean like things that heavily forested areas are typically cleared to grow. Soybeans, coffee beans, etc.. there are some more sustainable plants and stuff to pick from and some that are horrific in their land use

From my reading, it seems that eating less meat, particularly red meat, is the best way to reduce your impact. So much of deforestation is to grow soy, corn, etc for animal feed. Not to mention space for those animals to graze.

Oh yeah I just assumed that was common knowledge at this point that’s my bad. If you’re gonna eat meat you should probably hunt your own

This is the worst Rube Goldberg machine ever made.

It’s not doing anything any other race race wouldn’t be doing. Life consumes, reproduces, consumes, and when the are no more resources to consume, it dies off.

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Palm oil gets a bad rap from what I can tell. Most of the crops that have the biggest impact, such as palm oil, do so because they're the most used. However, they're often the most used because they're the most efficient. Dropping palm oil may have consequences if you just shift your oil use to a less efficient crop. Now you need even more farm land!

In the end the best general answer to TheAverageBiologist is to consume less and get involved in politics.

Consume less and get involved in politics.

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Ya this is false, tons from corporations manufacturing and energy needs being meet worldwide.

Fewer Human. More Trees. That’s the solution.

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It’s loss to unfiltered and unchecked purposeful destruction for profit.

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At least mine is air conditioned. Throwback to last summer when some people wanted to sleep at the office when it reaches frying pan level hotness in my city.

Sure and 80 billion landanimals and 1,42 trillion marine animals are all breatharians right. Because that are the numbers killed to sate everyones desire to eat animal products. Huge amounts of land and rainforest are cleared for that.