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[https://www.treehugger.com/how-swedens-logging-practices-affect-the-environment-5192350 by Rebecca Clarke 15/8/21 Treehugger] | [https://www.treehugger.com/how-swedens-logging-practices-affect-the-environment-5192350 by Rebecca Clarke 15/8/21 Treehugger] | ||
Sweden is known as one of the world’s most environmentally conscious countries. The International Energy Agency (IEA) called the country a global leader in building a low-carbon economy. Sweden's logging practices and policies, on the other hand, require a closer look. | Sweden is known as one of the world’s most environmentally conscious countries. The International Energy Agency (IEA) called the country a global leader in building a low-carbon economy. Sweden's logging practices and policies, on the other hand, require a closer look. | ||
=====Let’s Fight Fire with Fire===== | |||
[https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/united-states/california/stories-in-california/californias-wildfire-future/ by The Nature Conservancy 15/7/22] | |||
Thanks to Smokey Bear, a century of fire exclusion and the forced removal of Indigenous forest stewards, California’s Sierra forests are dangerously overgrown. Now, trees are packed together at up to five times their natural density, and fires that should regenerate our forests explode into infernos that destroy them. These forests help provide 60% of our state’s developed water supply, and losing them would leave millions of people without clean drinking water. | |||
