>>10906695
Its very fertile soil but not sustainable at all without the immensely complex ecosystem of the rainforest where the ground regenerates itself permanently through cycles of compostation and various life forms breaking dead other lifeforms into pieces. If you dont have that, you will use up the existing nutrients in a matter of one or two years, after which the soil becomes desert-like and prone to erosion, since on its own its already basically just sand held together by organic material.
You can regrow the rainforest on that soil again, but it takes decades and centuries to rebuild completely, but not if you just move a few meters further into the forest and burn yourself a new field...
I dont actually know for sure why european forests are so much different than tropical ones, but I assume its cause somehow the biomass manages to accumulate here to the point where the entire soil is actual hummus, but even here you have degradation of fertility if you dont farm intelligently ie with crop rotation and all that jazz. Still it means that our forests can be regrown fairly quickly, which is whats happening anyways, and the lack of biodiversity in boreal forests really means that its its very difficult to permanently drive a species to extinction, whereas in the amazon pretty much every few acres you burn youre almost guaranteed to kill off some species of plant, insect or higher animal...
In either way: extinction of potentially cool species is already the worst the brazilians can do to the rest of the world. Forests dont account for that much oxygen production anyways, and even then the russian taiga is growing much faster than brazil can burn its forests, so really who cares if they turn their entire country into a desert...
Its very fertile soil but not sustainable at all without the immensely complex ecosystem of the rainforest where the ground regenerates itself permanently through cycles of compostation and various life forms breaking dead other lifeforms into pieces. If you dont have that, you will use up the existing nutrients in a matter of one or two years, after which the soil becomes desert-like and prone to erosion, since on its own its already basically just sand held together by organic material.
You can regrow the rainforest on that soil again, but it takes decades and centuries to rebuild completely, but not if you just move a few meters further into the forest and burn yourself a new field...
I dont actually know for sure why european forests are so much different than tropical ones, but I assume its cause somehow the biomass manages to accumulate here to the point where the entire soil is actual hummus, but even here you have degradation of fertility if you dont farm intelligently ie with crop rotation and all that jazz. Still it means that our forests can be regrown fairly quickly, which is whats happening anyways, and the lack of biodiversity in boreal forests really means that its its very difficult to permanently drive a species to extinction, whereas in the amazon pretty much every few acres you burn youre almost guaranteed to kill off some species of plant, insect or higher animal...
In either way: extinction of potentially cool species is already the worst the brazilians can do to the rest of the world. Forests dont account for that much oxygen production anyways, and even then the russian taiga is growing much faster than brazil can burn its forests, so really who cares if they turn their entire country into a desert...
