Goodness me! Environmental scientists have discovered that the rain forest grows back much more quickly than they thought it could
I wonder why they did not know this before. I suppose it is because they get their pleasure from gazing at photos of the rape of the virgin by those nasty brutish (foreign) loggers & never bothered to find out what happened next
The 2 main problems with the rain forests are first that they do not provide a comfortable, safe or sustaining environment for humans yet take up a lot of the worlds valuable land space.
Good, the environmentalists say, we do not want any more of the vile species – except our grandchildren for whom we are saving this world
The second is that the really valuable bits – the hard woods so durable for building with – do not grow in stands but are scattered throughout the lesser tangled growth – hence the need for excessive clearing to find the good stuff. The best thing to do would be to sort out ways to manage proper plantations
And if humans need to clear land to live on, so that we judge the world no longer has enough trees, we can replant the forests we used to have
Let us hope that this does not happen by default, because our slash & burn attitude to our financial rainforest leaves us bereft of the resources to maintain our built environment & keep Nature at bay. If that happens, instead of the green shoots of miraculous regrowth we may be facing a Siberian winter
