i wish anyone realized how long it takes to grow a tree
and ecosystems around trees in general.
they keep pulling down ten year old trees over and over for new developments everywhere and then letting them die because there isn't enough other stuff to keep them alive and then tearing those out to replace them with bare trees again
over and over, everywhere
trees are spun as renewable now, because plastic is finite, but old growth isn't renewable without two hundred years, and new growth will never grow there unless you grow the rest of the forest with it, and just.
no one knows. no one knows that's needed.
