20/07/2022
TRE3£ LIFE 2017 Update.
The One World Debate - Is deforestation a primary cause of global warming and climate change?
30th Anniversary: RIO EARTH SUMMIT
This year will mark the 30th year anniversary of the Rio Earth summit in Brazil. At which the most important document ever to be compiled by human hand, was voluntarily agreed to on principle and signed by all participating member states of the United Nations in attendance. In essence the document - more infamously known as Agenda 21 - set out a detailed plan for terrestrial regeneration and ecological rescue.
30 years of environmental and political activism later, the fledgling science's in the study of the environment are now steadily building up a more reliable model: one capable of showing how the worst impacts upon global warming and climate change have occurred. If articles contained within the aforementioned document and agreement, clearly highlighted global biodiversity losses and terrestrial regeneration as a primary mandate; many in the international scientific, economic, political and environmental activist classes have misrepresented the category of importance and impact deforestation has made to both global warming and climate change. Carbon Neutral achieves very little in offsetting extinction, if deforestation is the major cause!
Humanities average output of CO2 is roughly 35billion tonnes p/y, whilst 30billion of this represents the total increase within the atmosphere; which is now in excess of 450 parts per million[ppm], equating to more than 0.045% of the total atmosphere. Industrial coal and petrol currently account for nearly most of all annual increase. And it has been estimated that deforestation globally is responsible for roughly ⅓ of all co2 in the atmosphere. The focus now shifts once again, and the reintroduction of global native woodlands has become a categorical imperative. Solidarity and accompanying international ECOCIDE laws, could bring dangerous fossil fuels usage to a halt overnight if it became absolutely necessary. Nevertheless, it would still take decades for native woodlands to re-establish.
Deforestation is undoubtedly a major cause of global warming and climate change, because not only is 02 now decreasing faster than carbon dioxide is rising; ongoing destruction of Boreal ecosystems only add to the losses in phytoplankton. Earth's Arctic waters are home to the greatest remaining concentration of oxygen producing phytoplankton: these microorganisms produce most of the oxygen in the atmosphere, and have recently been decreasing at an alarming rate in the world's waterways. Does higher water temperatures lead to phytoplankton loss, or is it the other way round? The ever changing face of science ensures questions remain, such is the nature of the empirical data available. Regardless, it is known decreased oxygen levels in the atmosphere would equate to higher temperatures, and that deforestation is a major cause for oxygen loss; via a reduction in a process that requires nutrient rich water, photosynthesis and the all important microorganisms. Regions experiencing the highest levels of deforestation have also recorded greater than average change in both climate and temperature increase. The droughts and famines of the 80's experienced by many across the African continent, were largely impacted upon by destruction of ecologies through unprecedented levels of biodiversity and forestry loss, and the West African ECOCIDE of the 70's is just one of many international examples. Global average temperatures flat line in the 3 decades previously, directly correlating with the level of global deforestation at around the same time. It is reported that nearly half of all native woodlands have been lost since the time of the early settlements of post ice age man, equating to 3 trillion of 6 trillion tree's, or roughly 30% of Earth's terrestrial surface. Global temperatures steadily increased - especially in the oceans - until the onset of the industrial revolution, when average temperatures started to rise dramatically. Half of all deforestation is reported to have occurred before this time.
In around 2021 the United Nations made an emergency announcement concerning the immediate plan to plant 1 trillion trees: leaving the global community less than 10 years to rewild 10% of all land on earth. And never has a pledge been more timely or needed. If the mandate's drawn out in the non binding contract signed at the RIO earth summit have now become a civilisation saving must….then the price of freedom truly is peace on earth. ECOCIDE is natural law and described as the fifth crime against peace, whilst natural laws guiding tenant is to do no harm. A strong international ecocide style law, to protect and restore native woodlands must now be a priority for a UN in crisis. In the context of deforestation, climate change and global warming; agenda 21 could never pass for a decent conspiracy. The world's superpowers had cleared most of their homelands forest's centuries before climate change had even become an issue. Humanities livelihood now faces an uncertain future, yet there is a silver lining to the hydra of climate change and global warming, and it is this: it will take solidarity and strong international cooperation capable of planting a trillion trees. The forces that work so hard to keep us divided as a species now must make way for the birth of a new civilisation; one that works for everyone and puts human, social and environmental rights at the very core of its ethos. More follow….
~ Symon
