What do you say when one of the kids asks about clear cutting tropical forests that are not being replanted?
>>What do you say when one of the kids asks about clear cutting tropical forests that are not being replanted?<<
In the words of Andrew Breitbart, “So?”
The Earth will adapt. It has for millions of years.
I tell them that there is replanting going on down there...and that there are also those who do not and they are short sighted, and will ultimately go under.
In some nations, their governments allow it, in others they do not.
I also tell them that trying to put together an organization like the UN or some other “global authority” to be in control ultimately leads to worse conditions because power and money corrupts...and the more and larger the power, the more the corruptions. That’s why, outside of national defense and interstate commerce, it is best to keep government and control as close to home as possible.
Unless you do something to prevent it, tropical forests, aka jungles, will grow back on their own, and quickly at that. Much of the clear cutting is for crop production. The much ballyhooed "rain forest" is not generally really all that fertile. But the people who live there figure they have to eat. But they grow a crop or two, and then move to another spot. Meanwhile the old spot starts to grow over.
Since I'm not the one doing it, I would tell them to study hard, get a Horticulture Degree and go fix it.
Talk is cheap.
BTW - For every argument, there is a ridiculous premise.