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Published: 2019-07-21 19:09:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 58491; Favourites: 4621; Downloads: 552
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If a tree falls
Some like to ponder
But I like to wonder
If a tree grows
Then why donβt we plant it?
Protecting our forests and planting new trees is our best defense against climate change. Join the fight at www.rainforesttrust.org/
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Couldn't agree more! And awesome execution as always, Y
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Answer for your wonders...
It's becuse as a species we are destructive and completely retarded. :/
As for the power and in your face of the image, it's perfect.
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I guess were so retarded we created democracy and put men into space.
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In the end, those mean nothing if the very planet we live on dies from our stupidity and greed.
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Actually what we're doing is allowing us to find a way off Earth in case anything like this happens. But that's gonna take a long time to do, so we might as well do what we can now, and save the trees. I agree with you on that, but the wonderful things we do definitely mean something.
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Plenty of trees have been planted. They just take years to grow.
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Hundreds of thousands of us do. We're called Tree planters! Or at least we were. fabulous image. Thank you for conjuring up the memories 
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Would be nice if we planted more trees ^_^ ! Very nice art piece!
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for the love of god dont vore it
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this is gorgeous!! a very good message as well ^^
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Please plant more trees, green is my favorite color. ^_^
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They need to manage their land, not farm a section to death in one year then clear more forest for next years.
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If done right, yes, if done Brazilian, soon they will have nothing but desert.
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I meeean. We only have more trees in america than we did when it was all indians AAND droughts have negatively affected the christmas tree buisness because they couldnt plant the trees necesary to fill the demand 20 years in advance.
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Really nice artwork, everytime, but, even if it's a rhetorical question, guess why we don't plant trees.
Because humans only think and care about themselves (99,99%). There are some few Gandhis and some few Nelson Mandelas, but all the rest... whatever, I'm not any better.
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Ohh, thanks to the devils, planet is saved.
First: Tell that Yuumei, not me. 
Second: Isn't the existence of those laws the best evidence for what I said?
There are laws for these things, sure. Laws against killing people, laws to protect nature, and so on. And? We still kill each other and still destroy nature wherever we can. Even nations with those great laws. Germany for example, we do have all those laws since decades, some for centuries, and we still continue killing innocent people in wars and still continue exploiting african countries for own benefits, for example. Back then we called that imperialism, nowadays we call that bi- and multilateral contracts. And majority of people here is totally fine with it, they're voting for this policy since decades without any change. Don't wanna know how it is in countries without those laws, holy lord of darkness.
Whatever. Don't mind me, not discussing at all, just my 2 cents.
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Yeah, governments as well, right.
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UPDATE:
After talking a bit to the people (in comments and in discord), I've decided that maybe industrial companies (mostly forestry) aren't AS BAD as I thought they were. Ye, they still suck in getting forests back up to what they were like before (including the fact that they don't care about planting according to biodiversity) but hopefully that'll be something we're working toward improving. Aaaand other complicated issues you can just read the replies to this comment for.
As for industries that expand the urban grounds, those aren't as much of a concern as I thought they were in the case of deforestation.
Anyway, still amazing art! Though hopefully later down the line you can make some art addressing biodiversity in planting trees?
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...You do realize that forestry companies plant more trees than they cut down, right?
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There are companies who cut down trees to build buildings.
Don't see any point for them to replant trees.
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...Are you pulling my leg here?
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After discussing it a bit more with other people that are willing to go into more detail, I changed my comment if you're interested lol.
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Oh right, the businesses which rely on trees for money would definitely replant trees! Thanks for bringing that up! But I feel that these days, with ever expanding populations (sure the growth is slowing down and all but 8 billion people is a lot), land for buildings and farms are in high demand, I believe. But I'm just talking out of my ass. However, I do see that my neighborhood has been slowly turned to a domino train of buildings, compared to what it was like in my childhood. It can't just be my neighborhood that's doing that.
Someone once said that: When the last tree is cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then would man realize that they cannot eat money.
We can only hope (and do what we can as normal people) that we don't reach that point were there is no turning back.
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Forestry woods is a renewable industry, you're confusing this with Amazon forests (as one example) cut down and 'burnt', not used, by naive farmers who don't know how to care for the productivity of the land. Landcare Australia is replanting areas lost to early farming methods all the time, but it won't outdo what South America is losing daily.
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What about the industries that cut down trees for space to build buildings and other man made structures?
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We have many Industry plantations in South Australia alone where the crop is rotated on the requirements of timber size and quality, 10 to 40 year growths cut and processed then replanted for next rotation, this has been going since first plantings in 1875, final native timber clearing cuts were in 1973 as plantations had finally reached sustainable quantity. Want more detail read here...
www.forestrysa.com.au/about-usβ¦
...and no, I'm not involved in that industry, ex auto parts salesperson of 30 years. But I have visited these plantations personally, so believe me when I say it's 'NO BULL'!Β
Β Β Β Β Even China has in the last 40 to 50 years seen the need for renewable timber and have gone all out in plantation timber industries. Canada needs to catch up big time, 2016 figures, Area harvested: 766,659 hectares, Area planted: 410,221 hectares...NOT GOOD ENOUGH!!
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I understand that forestry replants trees.
But I'm moving the question to other industries (or companies, forgive me if I'm using the wrong word) that remove trees for SPACE to build stone, concrete, metal etc. structures. I dont know what they are called... architectural industries? Construction industries?
Do companies go to the forestry industry to ask them to clear that land? They can get money from the wood and the company who bought the land has space. I doubt it. I doubt that the wood being cut down would even be used either. That would be too perfect.
But feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
Either way, even with the replanting from the forestry industry (which I now know are less lazier that I thought they were) it really is not enough to slow down climate change.
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Climate change is not from deforestation, it is industry pollution primarily, this is China's flipside as they are the worst for that. Other countries are also responsible, many are responsible. Climate change is also not the short term temperature changes of the atmosphere, that's a small indicator and very low volume compared to the real problem, ocean temperature. The oceans drive our climates. It's only a movie but 'The Day After Tomorrow' is a good worse case scenario of what ocean temperature can do. Alter ocean current convection flows and things can radically change.
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Right, my bad. Not solely from deforestation but it does cause a weeeeee bit. And I know climate change isn't just a phase :'D It's gonna be hell to deal with long term.
Pollution needs to be addressed first but let's not get into that since this artwork is about forests/trees lol
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Urban and city growth is a minor effect on forests, deforesting for unmanaged farmlands is a bigger issue. Farm soils have all the qualities that make it a soil taken out, eventually it just becomes sand, on a large scale desert. THAT is what will happen to Brazil.
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Now that was what I was looking for lol
Good to know!
Guess I'll change my main comment accordingly C:
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