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To: robert b furman who wrote (82839)	1/3/2020 8:12:50 AM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

depends bob.. example.. Jack Pine need fires to propagate.. clear cutting is not a natural phenomenon.. like a forest fire. I could concur on boreal forest where we are extracting lumber and replanting.. although rate and rapidity of cutting matter... and can certainly upset the apple cart. we lose old growth.. and it never regrows.. we do not wait hundreds of years to reharvest.. we lose biodiversity that way.. we change even in that case the nature of the forest... we ARE building on it essentially.. just not as drastically as a city... That is not what is happening in places like Malaysia and the Amazon... We are replacing with a worse mono crop... all else is weeds.. In the end though the planet will win :) EDIT: I'm not talking about saving everywhere as is in place.. that cannot work... we need lumber and food.. and some land needs be allotted to that.. but we cannot willy nilly go about it expecting nature to fix it.. in that case we are part of the problem and eliminating us will be part of the solution ...