[HN Gopher] Loss of moist broadleaf forest in Africa has turned ...
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       Loss of moist broadleaf forest in Africa has turned a carbon sink
       into source
        
       Author : PaulHoule
       Score  : 47 points
       Date   : 2025-12-28 20:59 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | dr_dshiv wrote:
       | Happened in Finland too-- forests becoming net carbon producers.
       | 
       | https://www.icos-cp.eu/news-and-events/news/finlands-forests...
        
         | lmc wrote:
         | And Austria
         | 
         | https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000268965/vom-retter-zu...
        
         | jabl wrote:
         | Notably, politically the notion of forests as carbon sinks have
         | been a very convenient fig leaf for politicians not wanting to
         | reduce emissions in other parts of society.
        
       | Herring wrote:
       | Humanity being the first species to go extinct because it was
       | more profitable than continued existence.
        
         | PaulHoule wrote:
         | See https://screenrant.com/far-side-gary-larson-dinosaur-
         | extinct...
        
         | wwweston wrote:
         | Not so much profit as a particular failure of accounting. Focus
         | on privatization of profit with socialization of costs allows
         | making staggering and possibly fatal costs someone else's
         | problem.
        
           | echelon_musk wrote:
           | AKA externalities.
        
         | phtrivier wrote:
         | Let's emulate world class leadership from the greatest country
         | on earth, and immediately stop funding those alarmists
         | doomsayers.
         | 
         | Anyway, I read on HN that AI was about to solve climate change
         | any time now. I'm sure prompting LLMs the right way will
         | harness the world knowledge to generatively hallucinate a way
         | for trees to grow better.
        
           | BLKNSLVR wrote:
           | I think Elon is working towards colonizing Mars because once
           | it's all worked out, that's what Earth's environment will be
           | like.
        
             | kibwen wrote:
             | Nope, it's Venus that we're racing towards.
        
         | BLKNSLVR wrote:
         | Remind me of the fantastic line:
         | 
         | "The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment"
        
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