Forests in sentence

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Well, what if we go to Madison Square Park, and we imagine it without all the cars, and bicycles instead and large forests, and streams instead of sewers and storm drains?

This is how villagers in medieval Europe managed pasture and forests.

So our oceans, forests, once very close to us as our local commons, moved very far away from us.

So today, we pump millions of tons of greenhouse gases into the air, we dump plastics, fertilizers and industrial waste into the rivers and oceans, and we cut down forests that absorb CO2.

We seem to have totally forgotten that there is such a thing as global commons: air, water, forests and biodiversity.

All of them told me that they can't make the change by themselves, and only by working together under a kind of new contract, or a new practice, do they have a chance to protect tropical forests.

We breathe the same air, we drink the same water, we depend on the same oceans, forests, and biodiversity.

I was raised in the forests of British Columbia to believe those forests existed to be cut.

That made me a different human being than my friends amongst the Kwagiulth who believe that those forests were the abode of Huxwhukw and the Crooked Beak of Heaven and the cannibal spirits that dwelled at the north end of the world, spirits they would have to engage during their Hamatsa initiation.

Now we've caught more than 100 king cobras over the last three years, and relocated them in nearby forests.

And our job is to convince the authorities that these forests have to be protected.

To the contrary, we knew that this project would destroy the environment: It would destroy riparian forests, which were the basis for the survival of nomadic groups, the Samburu and the Turkana in this area.

For the past 50 years, we've been fishing the seas like we clear-cut forests.

Not by the latest combine and tractor invention, but by fertile land; not by pumps, but by fresh water; not by chainsaws, but by forests; and not by fishing boats and nets, but by fish in the sea.

What it is now is mud, and the area of the ocean floor that has been transformed from forest to level mud, to parking lot, is equivalent to the entire area of all the forests that have ever been cut down on all of the earth in the history of humanity.

But when the fish came back and began predating and controlling the urchin population, low and behold, kelp forests emerged in shallow water.

The tananger on the East Coast of the United States, where the forests are a little denser, has one kind of call, and the tananger on the other side, on the west (Sound clip: Scarlet tanager song) has a different kind of call.

The acid rain was falling on the forests.

And you've got to use nuts from the rainforests to show that forests are worth more as forests than they are as pasture."

Because the people who were gathering Brazil nuts weren't the same people who were cutting the forests.

And the people who made money from Brazil nuts were not the people who made money from cutting the forests.

I saw forests and meadows.

I've taken them camping in the kelp forests of California.

Never have we seen, in the past 50 years, such a sharp decline of ecosystem functions and services on the planet, one of them being the ability to regulate climate on the long term, in our forests, land and biodiversity.

Now, if we have evidence, which we now have, that wetlands, forests, [unclear] monsoon system, the rainforests, behave in this nonlinear way.

You degrade forests, you go beyond the boundary on land, you undermine the ability of the climate system to stay stable.

And what I've done is, I've looked at both environments like the coffeehouse, I've looked at media environments like the World Wide Web, that have been extraordinarily innovative; I've gone back to the history of the first cities; I've even gone to biological environments, like coral reefs and rain forests, that involve unusual levels of biological innovation.

Let's say my left shoe corresponds to a sustainable footprint, meaning we humans consume less natural resources than our planet can regenerate, and emit less carbon dioxide than our forests and oceans can reabsorb.

In the end the filmmaker wants it to be a parable about how we us Americans are killing ourself and our forests (huh?

OK, whatever buddy) Dude I'd rather chop down forests then have my braincells diminish and my Grey matter leak out of my ears.

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