| While much is being made of preventing deforestation, litlte is being made of AFforestation - ie reforesting those areas that have been deforested in previous generations. Britain lost about 95% of its forest.
Carbon Counter: Afforestation is one thing that all "developed" countries governments could do now. But none more than UK. The UK has proportionally the smallest area of forest in EU, only 12%.
The process of changing land use from moors or rough grazing to forest use is possibly the single most important act Western Europe could do to mitigate the pollution it is already causing as having lost over 95% of our primary forest, a few percent now returned would make a lot of difference.
And it gives temperate climes something todo, rather than urging tropical climes to do what we dont do. There is a long term strategy of increasing contribution of UK forests to the mitigation of what will be a lasting legacy of excessive fossil fuel exploitation.
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CARBON COUNTER ..Afforestation Issues
