"Plant communities are vital to climate system regulation but, surprisingly, these communities, especially the world’s forests, are the single largest source of uncertainty in climate models because so little is known about their biological processes across individual-to-global scales.”
- Dr. Stephen Emmott
European Science Initiative
As I pass my first anniversary as a founding expert here at Keyboard Culture, I take pride in many things.
• I have a growing audience which consists of more than 7,500 unique visitors per month.
• I narrate each and every thread, giving you, the reader, my most valuable asset, the opportunity to hear my thoughts as I utter them.
• Organizations which I have covered in my thrice-weekly posts have built upon their pattern of success to achieve greater things.
The Nature Conservancy is a splendid example. A global leader in offering solutions to deforestation, the Nature Conservancy has launched an intrepid billion tree campaign aimed at protecting populations in the tropical rain forest of Brazil and global forest dynamics, a woefully under explored field within botany, climatology and silviculture.
Since the beginning of industrialization, the planet has lost about 9 billion trees, many of them in Brazil. Although deforestation of tropical rain forest habitat is rampant in every corner of the world, the devastation in Brazil is arguably the saddest and most grievous. For a sampling of the pain, I recommend that you listen to Inutil Paisagem by Antonio Carlos Jobim.
Tropical rain forests are the left side of the world’s respiratory system. The oceans are the right side and their functionality is aided by healthy rain forests of Brazil and elsewhere. The science of silviculture and global forest dynamics teaches us that. Replanting the tropical rain forests is an imperative for the survival of most every living thing on Earth and the time to begin passed us years ago. Still, the fact that we have lost precious time and that the need for real solutions to deforestation grows every day does not mean that we should quit.
That’s why the billion tree campaign from the Nature Conservancy on PlantABillion.org is so important. It is boldly comprehensive and accessible by millions of people because you can plant a tree for just a dollar.
Through the Nature Conservancy’s Adopt An Acre program, I have protected dozens of acres in South America and helped populations in the tropical rain forest of Brazil have a better life but that’s not good enough. We need to replace all of what we have lost. We need a viable, sustainable silviculture industry in the rain forest of Brazil and elsewhere.
Visit PlantABillion.org. Do your part. Help everyone breathe easier. With innovative solutions to deforestation such as the billion tree campaign from the Nature Conservancy leveraged by the power of the Internet, we truly can help populations in the tropical rainforest to harness global forest dynamics and benefit humanity at the same time.
Sustainable Justice For All!
Corbett Kroehler
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