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Climate change threatens Germany's fairy tale forests (www.npr.org)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1086578

Archived version: https://archive.ph/NURko
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230805120521/https://www.npr.org/2023/08/05/1191724399/climate-change-threatens-germanys-fairy-tale-forests

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

There is almost no real forest left in Germany anyways. We just recently started to leave forest be forest again and it will take centuries or millennia for it to become a natural forest again. Which then would probably be much more resilient to climate change than what we have today.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

There are still a couple of really old forests but yeah it's increasingly rare

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You mean the orderly grids of pines and spruces, all of the exact same height in almost ethnically cleansed monoculture are not natural forests?

I'm shocked!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Those are actually not the norm either. Well, depending on where exactly you are I suppose, but where I am from most forests are kinda diverse but not really.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

“Threatens,” “warns,” “estimates,” “probably.” Enough fence sitting. Climate change is here and going to get worse.