Ethan Tapper
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And that in this moment, those ecosystems are in trouble and that there are actually things that we can do to help them.
And I believe that if we have the tools to help them in this moment, that we have to.
Absolutely.
I mean, I think less to my peers in the conservation community, because, you know, we engage in these really nuanced and complex relationships with ecosystems all the time.
But to a lot of people, you know, taking, for example, one of the most powerful tools that we have access to, to help forests and to, you know, to affect changes in these forests, the cutting of a tree.
Now, who could ever believe, you know, if you love forests and you love trees as I do, who could believe that the cutting of a tree could be something that's positive for an ecosystem?
You know, it doesn't make any sense.
And yet, it's true.
You know, and I think that one of the things that I wanted to express with How to Love a Forest is how a lot of these counterintuitive and bittersweet actions that are necessary to help us care for these ecosystems can be these profound acts of love.
I had never read a book that really described what it felt like for me to do these things, which is really hard and really bittersweet.
And having to deal with all of this dissonance and all these counterintuitive actions and what they really felt like at the end of the day was...
such a profound act of compassion because they required me to not just do what's easy and convenient and comfortable, but to actually do what was necessary to protect these ecosystems, even when it was really hard.
So forests are carbon sinks.
in general.
So what that means is that we have all this carbon that's in the atmosphere and that forests are able to pull it out of the atmosphere through a process that we call sequestration and to store it in forest soils and in the trunks of trees and in the wood of those trees and the branches and the roots and all different aspects of this forest communities.
When we talk about carbon in forests, we talk about it like this amorphous abstract thing, like it's something that would be in a beaker in a lab somewhere.
But really, it's the most basic thing in the world.
As these trees are photosynthesizing, you know, as they're doing this amazing thing that they do with sunlight, they're pulling carbon out of the atmosphere and they're turning it into sugars and starches, tree food, essentially.
And they're converting that into wood.
Right.
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