CAMBRIDGE, MASS. – Beck Mordini, Executive Director of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate issued the following statement on the White House’s decision to declare “open-season” on 58 million acres of native forests, paving the way for road and development construction.
“Just as tens of millions of Americans are experiencing a lethal, record-breaking heat wave, the federal government has launched a reckless attack on one of our most vital natural climate regulators. Forests aren’t just a collection of trees, they are complex, living systems that manage water, cool the planet, and sustain biodiversity across continents. Calling these protections ‘absurd obstacles’ to resource management flips reality on its head: the ecosystem is the resource, and they manage us far more prudently than we seem to be able to manage them. Tearing up these ecosystems for short-term profit threatens to unravel climate stability through cascading, long-range feedbacks. What harms a forest in one place can disturb rainfall, heat balance, and ecological life somewhere else.
“Americans of all walks of life came together over the past few weeks to show they’re united in defending public lands. If we care about a livable future, we must stop treating nature like an obstacle and commercial resource and start listening to what it’s trying to tell us.”
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Biodiversity for a Livable Climate
Biodiversity for a Livable Climate was founded in 2013 to address an urgent need to expand the climate conversation to include the seriously underestimated positive impacts of the biosphere on the climate and physical world. We saw how appropriate human approaches to nature may be able to reverse the effects of global warming despite our inability to date to reduce emissions in a timely manner. Our goal is to contribute to planetary regeneration through research, education, collaboration and action to restore essential global biodiversity. Bio4Climate is pioneering implementation of the Miyawaki Method in the United States, having planted the first ever Miyawaki Forest in the NorthEast U.S.
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