@@bebra3896 no, we chopped all the Atlantic Forest, which is where these "green deserts" are planted. The Amazon Forest is currently being chopped right now, and I hope we can avoid it. The Atlantic Forrest was the most biodiverse Forest of the world :(
@@bebra3896We have not, check your News sources bro. The Amazon stands alive and well, of course deforestation happens but we're nothing close to "chopped down all of the amazon".
So where forest are supposed to grow they chop them all down for agriculture, but where they arent supposed to grow, they plant em. The biosystems cant catch a break
This is also a BIG issue in Brasil some farms don’t just have cattle but also cut down all the native forest and plant pine tree monocultures for toilet paper. This is a big problem for states in the interior
That's basically Finland. People always talk about how much "nature we have here" but in reality we've got fields for farming and wood fields. Actual forests and untouched nature are rare in the south of the country at least.
Yes, I know, and it's the same here in Sweden. Greedy companies and people don't care about biodiversity, there's too much short term profits for them to care about the earth. It's embarrassing to hear those greedy people defend the slaughter on our forests.
We're the same in Ireland. Known for being the emerald Isle but we have some of the lowest native forest cover in Europe. (Party because of important farmland and bogs etc) But, we have a lot of aforestation with silly scots pine trees. They do nothing for biodiversity and damage other ecosystems like rivers by making the water more acidic.
You got it wrong. The plantations are sitka spruce. Scots Pine has been in Ireland for centuries, chieftains were buried under them, some are 100s of years old. They're beautiful trees that are beneficial
We have a similar issue in Finland. Almost all our forest are monoculture for the forest industry but when I was in school they somehow managed to spin that as a good thing. It just makes me sad now.
@@julusiak1if you get on a computer and look up google earth (not google maps), you can download it and then play around. For the historical imagery, there will be a row of icons along the top, and one of them will be a little clock shaped thing. Click on that and you will have that blue time bar displayed at the top, and you can click on the different white lines or just go back and forth to see different images from different years
And to...??? Concrete? Grass for farms!?? If you want to plant natives, great. It's going to take at least 4x as long to build biomass, but great. Not it won't reforest an area this large
@@calebblaha7854Im betting its just like normal forestry, so you thin the forest now and again / at the end do an clearing and plant again. From the thinning you get wood for paper and such and the last cut 15-25 years from planting you get that good timber.
This was such a perfect short. Got me interested with just the right amount of info in the right ways to go watch the full video. Nicely done whomever was in charge of it!
@@Sobreira4 that’s technically not true. There is much of the South arctic that has not been touched at all. It’s way too far out to hike to, and not safe to fly to. Humans have never even set foot in some parts
@@TheSpaceMommaif we want to get really technical those areas have probably still been indirectly impacted by human activity on some level (climate, atmosphere, etc). But yeah there's places humans have never technically been on earth.
There is nothing inherently bad about afforestation, contrary to deforestation, but I bet it isn't optimal either. Mono culture isn't a natural thing and the soil, micro biology, animal diversity ect ect isn't optimal. It an industry that is arguably better than so many other industries but it isn't a counter opposite to deforestation.
I know right? People don't want afforestation, they don't want deforestation...news flash paper demand is never going away, pick the best of two evils here and stop crying.
I wonder if buffer zones that would be filled with more native plants could be implemented to ease the transition between the natural environments and the farm environment. Either way, forestry industries are quite helpful in removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
First time I hear about A-forestation somewhere in the world. So far, especially in my country, there has been a massive, illegal, unchecked, DE-forestation. Makes me sick to think how many hundreds of tractor loads have passed just near my house in the last two years. Going to the "authorities" would be useless because they all know each other and only care about a few bucks in their own pockets.
euhm...these forrests are build to destroy again. This is not deforestation, it is not for nature, but for business. no biodiversity, not a real ecosysteem....
Funfact: Germany planted alot of these after the war becouse it boosted the econemy massivly. As a result all of those trees are dying now couse mono cultures are very suseptbale to desises and bugs.
Except that these artificial forests are used to plant living toilet paper and other wood products. They are just tree farms and not native friendly at all.
@MollyHJohns you know what else isn't native friendly? Your home. At least this "living toilet paper" produces oxygen. Also, while I'm thinking of it, you probably should research earth's history; as it is filled with changing ecology.
Trees are are near net 0 for oxygen production, they also breathe and turn O2 into CO2. That is not why they are useful to have for climate reasons. @therealdannymullen
@@therealdannymullen They don't actually produce that much oxygen on net. Planting of trees done badly is arguably just as bad as not planting trees at all, and dense monoculture planting is definitely very very bad planting.
But it doesn't change the fact that Uruguay has 3.42 million people only whereas Australia has 42.8 million kangaroos. So if Kangaroos invade Uruguay then 1 person to take on 12-13 kangaroo's 🤕
The classic case of a green desert. They are forests technically, but no other life is on the forest other than the chosen tree... No animals, no native vegetation, only industrial greenery and depletion of resources.
@@mimikal7548 The mineral content of the soil would be a big enough reason by itself. Natural landscapes cycle back those resources into the biosphere. Also worth noting is the native biology that got pushed out by the plantation. The grassland before it was a much more vibrant ecosystem than the plantation is.
@@mimikal7548the carbon dioxide is going back into the atmosphere when those trees burn in a couple years, and it will take all the mineral content of the soil with them.
except you have no idea about what you are talking about, and these forests are full of animals. Many endangered native animals are much more prolific, there have even been sightings of mountain lions that didn't happen in decades
Artificially grown or not, they capture carbon and release oxygen, maybe provide shelter to wildlife gor a while. I cannot see too much wrong with that.
@@davidandrews5262 I literally live in such a forest and it's dreadful. There are no birds, only invasive caterpillars, and the ground is basically dead, nothing grows. And it's also incredibly dangerous during storms because these trees aren't resistant at all, and they burn stupidly easily.
@@specklednoodle99 Trees are not thr most important thing in the environment. You know what the most important thing is? Water. And trees take a LOT of water in their growth period, and less when they're already big. When you plant thousands of trees and then cut them out once they're big, just to repeat it again and again, you're draining the water from the underground reservoirs.
Great video, why you don’t also mention that they pollute the Uruguay river that Argentina shares, killing a ton of wild life and poisoning people. I love how you just mention half of the history, would be great that when Americans do research don’t look only what it’s looks good but also what truly happens to the people of South America. Hopefully someone will care about the Uruguay river some day
Unless I'm mistaken single species plantations run the risk of specialized pest infestations destroying them. Been to Germany last year and I got to see entire hillsides of plantations withered because of an exploration in the population of a tiny beetle
If you had 1/4 this species, 1/4 that species, and two other species, prolonged dry (or wet, or whatever) and a outbreak, worst case is 25% dead trees. And that's less likely because of the lower density of any single species.
I'm guessing you prefer dairy farms and cities 🙄. Have you ever been inside a forestry zone!?? Not a desert Edit: there are animals that live in the forest, even if it's less diverse than natural forest
@@XB10001 They mean it in a ecological sense. Not many species can survive within these artificial forests, which means that despite all the trees the place is actually pretty devoid of life, like a desert.
@@growtocycle6992I grew up in Elmhurst, a town nearly a century old at the time. The elms arched over the main streets, and after snowfall it was like a cathedral in black and white lace. Then Dutch Elm disease hit. All the shade and charm was gone. Now I live in the Twin Cities, green with ash and maple trees. We are losing ALL our ash trees thanks to the emerald ash beetle. Another disease has been discovered that hits maple trees. Any time an area develops a dominant species, it and all its dependent plants and animals are at high risk.
Seems this wasn't about saving the environment, but about industry and production. But hey, if everyone wants to think they are eco saviors, go right ahead.
Nowhere in this short was "saving the environment" mentioned. Plus we can't live off good intentions. Sustainability isn't about keeping the world in a wild, untouched state. It's about reaching an equilibrium between human needs and the conservation of the ecosystem.
They're planting and maintaining forests. Does it matter what the purpose is? Way better than "going green" where green means switching to electronics that are made of rare metals mined in horrible processes, manufactured in factories powered by coal, and then shipped in diesel powered ships. Paper and whatever else they use the wood for at least offsets some of the carbon costs involved in making and shipping it, and, like in Uruguay, it creates an excuse to plant and maintain forests. In fact, since the goal of capitalism is growth, they need to plant more trees than they cut in order to grow the paper industry and meet future demand, so basically if we use more paper, we create incentive to grow more forests. The whole digital movement has just been to sell more electronics, it's not actually environmentally friendly, at least at the moment. Maybe one day when we can completely recycle electronics and are powered entirely by renewables, but even then, the fact that paper grows forests remains.
Monoculture is what that's called. True, but if anything else grows alongside the forests before they're harvested, and even if not, the tree canopies will create a great ecosystem that will prevent ecology loss.
Great to see that a country is taking up forestry! In some western country’s it’s becoming so hard to harvest plantations and it’s killing the economy as well as being more destructive long term as other non renewable products may be used instead
To be honest Uraguay is so sparse I totally see them having more than enough room for trees. Given they also haven't had international level news problems I can assume they did a good here.
Monocrop agriculture is about the farthest thing from nature short of a parking lot. Native Americans farmed for centuries in harmony with nature, yet with all our technological "advances" we're doing the opposite.
Great. Is is this going to complain about planting trees? We complain about cutting trees. Now we're going to complain about planting trees? By this logic, we can't do anything. Maybe stop complaining and support people living with nature, trying to develop economies that don't destroy but work with nature. If the execution is flawed or there is corruption, let's fix those. But don't demonize economic activities that involves agriculture just for it's sake.
This is actually the most efficient way to capture carbon. Every log they produce captures carbon permanently in abuilding, that building gets recycled and the wood is used again.
Yeah but then you got to burn the wood make bio char and then it will actually stay in the ground for like 4000 years and make little soil food web hotels for the bacterial.
@@shawnpitman876 not if you put it out before it turns white. The difference between black bio char and white wood ash is like 90% mass difference and it becomes complete white when it’s burned off all its carbon.
wow, it's beautiful for wood, a commodity that's often taken from endangered ecosystems, to be grown in a completely sustainable & renewable fashion is hopeful and awe inspiring.
Unless you are being sarcastic, I think you’ve misunderstood. These tree plantations are terrible for the environment and have very low biodiversity compared to natural forests that have millions of different species. It also destroys the natural ecosystems.
Trees are good but Watt about Hemp for pulp it produces 4 times more pulp per acre than trees per acre which take 20 years to grow and Hemp ENRICHES THE SOIL AND NO PESTICIDES TO GROW ! And in some areas you can get 2 harvest a year !
That’s how all of our lumber that we use today is made and people think that we’re going out and cutting down random forests. America has a lot of them too especially in the south. Next time you are driving past some woods, notice how all the trees are planted in a line with spaces in between them.
But it is bad. Monoculture is far more harmful than just leaving the grassland as it is. It's not positive, and if the wood just gets chopped down for toilet paper, it doesn't reduce emissions either.
The amount if wilful ignorance and misinformation in these comments is depressing. Unfortunately it seems a lot of people weren't taught in school the negatives of monocultures, impacts of deforestation, etc.
Every civilization on the planet needs materials made from wood. You complain when old timberlands are cut down and you complain when cultivated timber is cut down. The cognitive disconnect is astounding.
Street view is cool. Some previous shots go back to 2009. I was just watching a Realtor in Japan showing a 1.75 million US house in greater Tokyo. Found it on Google maps and street view in a couple of minutes. The latest shows an empty lot. Clicking into the past shows a house that used to be on the property. It all depends on how many times Google has done a drive by.
I’ve never been able to understand this obsession with getting pulp from trees. Hemp is much quicker to grow & it’s also easier to mention it takes less chemicals & processing to get pulp from hemp. Also the yield per acre is higher with hemp.
I used to be a logger, I don’t know about Europe but in America pulp wood is a byproduct of timber harvesting. The idea of not wasting paper to save trees is an absolute myth. Before we would load out pulp wood we would have to call the mill that day and see if what they were paying even covered the trucking to get it there. It’s usually just all the different pieces of wood that are either too small or otherwise wrong sort to make lumber with.
Suena mas bien que es para hablar mal de tu pais. A Vox le encanta hablar mal de paises que no sigan ideologias izquierda al pie de la letra como la agenda 2030 entre otros (y ojo no es que sea proruso, ultra-derecha ni nada de esas patrañas.)
@@IsAcRafT Estimado, no tengo ni idea de politica Española, ni de vox, solo lo superficial. Por lo que vi, este mini docu trata de como se reforesta para mantener activa la industria y al menos replantar el daño al medio ambiente. Uruguay por suerte es de los mejores paises de Latam en cuanto a su economía, ya que al ser 3,5 millones de habitantes. La industria papelera, como dice el docu es una industria fuerte en el país, en parte es lo que nos mantiene a flote
Make Africa forest again so that everyone there will be farmers not industrialists. So developed countries can enjoy that products and keep these countries underdeveloped 😅.
euhm...is use to be all forrests....just because the old forrest has been destroyed and for some part replaced with these plantations is not amazing...
@puntvandekomma9498 It's amazing, two billion dollars in exports , jobs and expertise. I'm sure those benefitting would rather have the jobs than have it all dismantled.
@@nickiemcnichols5397 I don't think grasslands can match forests in regards to biodiversity but even if they can I doubt there's much native fauna left there considering how much cattle they raise. I've seen people describing the whole country as a big farm so there's not much to preserve there really.
I work in Western Australia in the timber industry, the only place on earth that Jarrah grows. Makes me so angry that none of our governments since the 70s bothered to to protect the industry like this, now even ceasing logging won't save the forests due to global warming and overlogging. Fml
Nature has been destroyed over there, coastal swamps replaced by endless plantations of eucalyptus. The whole interior of the country has lost so much biodiversity.
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In Brazil we call those "green deserts".
in Brazil u chopped all of the Amazon forest if I'm not mistaking
@@bebra3896 the corporations and ranchers did.
@@bebra3896 no, we chopped all the Atlantic Forest, which is where these "green deserts" are planted. The Amazon Forest is currently being chopped right now, and I hope we can avoid it. The Atlantic Forrest was the most biodiverse Forest of the world :(
Atlantic Forest? @@MrBeiragua
@@bebra3896We have not, check your News sources bro. The Amazon stands alive and well, of course deforestation happens but we're nothing close to "chopped down all of the amazon".
"Last chance to look at me, Hectare."
Bad day to be a monoculture.
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@mrsteamer why did you end your sentence with ellipses before completing it?
@CitizenDirtBecause they don’t go outside I guess
So where forest are supposed to grow they chop them all down for agriculture, but where they arent supposed to grow, they plant em. The biosystems cant catch a break
"aren't supposed to grow" places are a rarity among rare
If humanity doesnt exist, every place would be growing with plant. Whats ur point?
Biosystem will adapt regardless of anything
@@discharm210 is humanity the worst thing to ever happen to this planet?
@@discharm210 Different and native plants. What plants exist where is very important to the wildlife that lives there.
This is also a BIG issue in Brasil some farms don’t just have cattle but also cut down all the native forest and plant pine tree monocultures for toilet paper. This is a big problem for states in the interior
Pretty sure the fact you can’t leave your house without being mugged is a bigger issue then trees
@@MyNameIsSaloyou can’t think two things are bad and deserve attention? Not enough brain capacity for that much thought?
This is not a bad thing lol
@@pedroabrantes120 Cut down too much native forest and you destroy the ecosystem that feeds you
@@adenm8963 actually the native trees don't provide food. The crops planted are what provide the food
The more ya know 😊
That's basically Finland. People always talk about how much "nature we have here" but in reality we've got fields for farming and wood fields. Actual forests and untouched nature are rare in the south of the country at least.
Yes, I know, and it's the same here in Sweden. Greedy companies and people don't care about biodiversity, there's too much short term profits for them to care about the earth. It's embarrassing to hear those greedy people defend the slaughter on our forests.
Mono eco culture is a recipe for disaster. Monetary gain is at high risk with this approach to farming. Same thing is happening in Canada.
and europe
its also just bad for the eco system
I saw that with the Google map feature, this is mostly in Quebec north of Quebec City
Bark beetle killing all the spruce trees
Go away, you anti capitalist.
A tree plantation is as biodiverse as a cornfield.
both of which produce MORE oxygen and sequester MORE carbon than a natural ecosystem.
We're the same in Ireland. Known for being the emerald Isle but we have some of the lowest native forest cover in Europe. (Party because of important farmland and bogs etc)
But, we have a lot of aforestation with silly scots pine trees. They do nothing for biodiversity and damage other ecosystems like rivers by making the water more acidic.
You got it wrong. The plantations are sitka spruce. Scots Pine has been in Ireland for centuries, chieftains were buried under them, some are 100s of years old. They're beautiful trees that are beneficial
@@LaughingMan44 yes, you are correct about the species. My bad 😅
We have a similar issue in Finland. Almost all our forest are monoculture for the forest industry but when I was in school they somehow managed to spin that as a good thing. It just makes me sad now.
The companies doing this in Uruguay are Finnish, so I guess the plan is the same
But they arent tree deserts tho, like its rare to see complete tree deserts in finland.
The book Can Life Prevail? is an excellent account of this issue from a Finn
@@iirosiren5120They are "tree forests" or as we call them in Finland, "wood fields" (as in agricultural field)
I am absolutely obsessed with the historical imagery feature on google earth and use it to look at the precipitous increase in suburban development
been doing the same since i was a kid :3
high density gang
How to open it? Where is it
@@julusiak1if you get on a computer and look up google earth (not google maps), you can download it and then play around. For the historical imagery, there will be a row of icons along the top, and one of them will be a little clock shaped thing. Click on that and you will have that blue time bar displayed at the top, and you can click on the different white lines or just go back and forth to see different images from different years
I have been wishing for a feature like this for so long and had no idea it exists!
Did a geography project on Uruguay called "Cows, Trees, and Tourists: Economy of Uruguay"
Are you uruguayan?
Here in Ireland we are moving AWAY from forest monoculture.
And to...??? Concrete? Grass for farms!?? If you want to plant natives, great. It's going to take at least 4x as long to build biomass, but great. Not it won't reforest an area this large
@@growtocycle6992 To mixed planted forests and to a small (too small) extent to permaculture.
@@Athena621How are you harvesting them efficiently then?
@@calebblaha7854Im betting its just like normal forestry, so you thin the forest now and again / at the end do an clearing and plant again. From the thinning you get wood for paper and such and the last cut 15-25 years from planting you get that good timber.
We aren't, it's just a box-ticking exercise for Coilte, I doubt the trees they plant are even native ecotypes.
This was such a perfect short. Got me interested with just the right amount of info in the right ways to go watch the full video. Nicely done whomever was in charge of it!
Me too. I’m off to watch the whole thing. It’s the intelligent use of tech (google maps past history) to tease us in that worked for me.
Yes it was nicely done. Very refreshing. Great reporting 👍
The full length video is perfect too, really interesting about why just planting forests isn't automatically environmentally brilliant
Vox is one of the last remaining good, interesting online newspapers.
Same here I've been scrolling past their video for weeks but now I'm interested.
It’s gonna be weird when no part of the earth will not have been directly altered by humanity.
No part of Earth has not been altered by mankind.
@@Sobreira4 that’s technically not true. There is much of the South arctic that has not been touched at all. It’s way too far out to hike to, and not safe to fly to. Humans have never even set foot in some parts
@@TheSpaceMommaif we want to get really technical those areas have probably still been indirectly impacted by human activity on some level (climate, atmosphere, etc).
But yeah there's places humans have never technically been on earth.
Most of every acre has already been touched, altered, or otherwise impacted.
@@TheSpaceMomma2/3 of Africa hasn’t been touched
There is nothing inherently bad about afforestation, contrary to deforestation, but I bet it isn't optimal either. Mono culture isn't a natural thing and the soil, micro biology, animal diversity ect ect isn't optimal. It an industry that is arguably better than so many other industries but it isn't a counter opposite to deforestation.
I know right? People don't want afforestation, they don't want deforestation...news flash paper demand is never going away, pick the best of two evils here and stop crying.
I wonder if buffer zones that would be filled with more native plants could be implemented to ease the transition between the natural environments and the farm environment. Either way, forestry industries are quite helpful in removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
It can displace native species, but even worse it can mess up wetland ecosystems which sequester far more carbon than forests.
Specifically, they are eucalyptus, which drink a ton of water.
@@francis5518they don't "drink" it and it's gone. They hold it like watertanks and create more rain in the process.
First time I hear about A-forestation somewhere in the world.
So far, especially in my country, there has been a massive, illegal, unchecked, DE-forestation.
Makes me sick to think how many hundreds of tractor loads have passed just near my house in the last two years.
Going to the "authorities" would be useless because they all know each other and only care about a few bucks in their own pockets.
China also has done afforestation in a mega scale
euhm...these forrests are build to destroy again. This is not deforestation, it is not for nature, but for business.
no biodiversity, not a real ecosysteem....
Afprestation is only a little less damaging than deforestation, don't get excited.
@@AinzWoolGown no it has not
@@leonardomarquesbellini incorrect
Funfact: Germany planted alot of these after the war becouse it boosted the econemy massivly. As a result all of those trees are dying now couse mono cultures are very suseptbale to desises and bugs.
Shoutout to the person that said "our country needs money. We should plant trees."
Money really does grow on trees.
Did you know that one good shade tree can enhance the value of your home by up to $10 grand?
Except that these artificial forests are used to plant living toilet paper and other wood products. They are just tree farms and not native friendly at all.
@MollyHJohns you know what else isn't native friendly? Your home.
At least this "living toilet paper" produces oxygen.
Also, while I'm thinking of it, you probably should research earth's history; as it is filled with changing ecology.
Trees are are near net 0 for oxygen production, they also breathe and turn O2 into CO2. That is not why they are useful to have for climate reasons. @therealdannymullen
@@therealdannymullen They don't actually produce that much oxygen on net. Planting of trees done badly is arguably just as bad as not planting trees at all, and dense monoculture planting is definitely very very bad planting.
But it doesn't change the fact that Uruguay has 3.42 million people only whereas Australia has 42.8 million kangaroos. So if Kangaroos invade Uruguay then 1 person to take on 12-13 kangaroo's 🤕
I'm too weak for that many kangaroos
@@sofiamontero14 but you have wood to fend them off
I can take em
@@Asterion_Mol0c be my guest, you can have mine haha
@@sofiamontero14 why thank you
The classic case of a green desert. They are forests technically, but no other life is on the forest other than the chosen tree... No animals, no native vegetation, only industrial greenery and depletion of resources.
Depletion of what resources? The trees grow literally out of thin air (the carbon dioxide in it, and also water and some minerals from the soil).
@@mimikal7548 The mineral content of the soil would be a big enough reason by itself. Natural landscapes cycle back those resources into the biosphere. Also worth noting is the native biology that got pushed out by the plantation. The grassland before it was a much more vibrant ecosystem than the plantation is.
@@mimikal7548the carbon dioxide is going back into the atmosphere when those trees burn in a couple years, and it will take all the mineral content of the soil with them.
except you have no idea about what you are talking about, and these forests are full of animals. Many endangered native animals are much more prolific, there have even been sightings of mountain lions that didn't happen in decades
Would you rather cut down the Amazon instead?
Looks like fingerprints.
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Have u seen their latest long form?
@@Charles11112 I haven't!
that's exactly what they started with in their video
There is a separate video on TH-cam that just came out on that subject
Artificially grown or not, they capture carbon and release oxygen, maybe provide shelter to wildlife gor a while. I cannot see too much wrong with that.
Are you EVEN suggesting that something that is manmade could be good??????
Call Greta, we have a Net zi here.
Watch the full video. These forests have half the wildlife of the original grasslands
And then, they get processed, and their rivers get polluted.
@@adrianb.6479 don't care. Leave the developing countries alone. They deserve to be fruitful.
@@davidandrews5262 I literally live in such a forest and it's dreadful. There are no birds, only invasive caterpillars, and the ground is basically dead, nothing grows. And it's also incredibly dangerous during storms because these trees aren't resistant at all, and they burn stupidly easily.
I'm from Uruguay and i had no idea of this. Thanks man
Kudos to your country man
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El verano pasado estuve por la ruta 5 y es un desierto abajo de los árboles
Fun fact: Uruguay is predicted to become carbon neutral by 2030.
2030 and 2050 are basically go-to prediction dates
@@Tyranid_Hive_Mind 2030 is around the corner
@@MexBaker 2050
@@Tyranid_Hive_Mind you're the one that brought up 2050
They only have the population of a city so shouldn't be terribly difficult
The long form video was very in depth. Great work.
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No worries, here in Seattle we fixed the world, we banned straws
I just wish all these countries would start asking us what they should do with their land first…
Goodbye Pampas (native grassland with high diversity of herbs and grasses species).
Brasileiro? Se sim, tá triste, viu? Cada vez menos tá se vendo aves nativas e roedores aqui no sul. Tratam banhados como fosse terra inútil.
This is horrible for the environment though. Monoculture is not a good thing for biodiversity
I agree when monocultures replace natural forests, but compared to no trees at all its probably not so bad
It’s better than no trees but still not the best.
@@specklednoodle99 Trees are not thr most important thing in the environment. You know what the most important thing is? Water. And trees take a LOT of water in their growth period, and less when they're already big. When you plant thousands of trees and then cut them out once they're big, just to repeat it again and again, you're draining the water from the underground reservoirs.
@@specklednoodle99grassland is better for carbon storage
@@l1477 this isnt really abt carbón capture, because yes there are better "templates" to follow
But this is abt selling wood because welp we use it
Mr. Beast has been real quiet since this dropped.
Team Trees use native plants I believe
Its funny how many people are completely oblibious to why this is a problem
Great video, why you don’t also mention that they pollute the Uruguay river that Argentina shares, killing a ton of wild life and poisoning people. I love how you just mention half of the history, would be great that when Americans do research don’t look only what it’s looks good but also what truly happens to the people of South America. Hopefully someone will care about the Uruguay river some day
Those videos about random places are really good! I just watched the video about this hollow in Madagascar!!!
Destroyed native grasslands.
That’s perfect so we can get more Amazon boxes to throw away
Cardboard is mostly made of recycled paper and old cardboard, not pulp
Unless I'm mistaken single species plantations run the risk of specialized pest infestations destroying them.
Been to Germany last year and I got to see entire hillsides of plantations withered because of an exploration in the population of a tiny beetle
I was told the population outburst was caused by prolonged hot weather
If you had 1/4 this species, 1/4 that species, and two other species, prolonged dry (or wet, or whatever) and a outbreak, worst case is 25% dead trees. And that's less likely because of the lower density of any single species.
@@dekumarademosater2762so it's not monoculture
@@cheirinhodepacoca if it's cultivated, but not monoculture, yeah your risk of bad things goes down. But what's in the video is monoculture
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Ah yes who doesn't love a green desert
I'm guessing you prefer dairy farms and cities 🙄.
Have you ever been inside a forestry zone!?? Not a desert
Edit: there are animals that live in the forest, even if it's less diverse than natural forest
Uruguay is not a desert.
@@XB10001 They mean it in a ecological sense. Not many species can survive within these artificial forests, which means that despite all the trees the place is actually pretty devoid of life, like a desert.
@@growtocycle6992I grew up in Elmhurst, a town nearly a century old at the time. The elms arched over the main streets, and after snowfall it was like a cathedral in black and white lace.
Then Dutch Elm disease hit. All the shade and charm was gone.
Now I live in the Twin Cities, green with ash and maple trees. We are losing ALL our ash trees thanks to the emerald ash beetle. Another disease has been discovered that hits maple trees.
Any time an area develops a dominant species, it and all its dependent plants and animals are at high risk.
At last! Some people apart from Poland started thinking about the future!
Their paper industry heavily pollutes the rivers. Great future!
@@XB10001 Ok - be the change - stop using toilet paper!
@@ipodman1910 flash news ... there are MANY types of paper.
Amazing ... isn't it? 🙄
What really surprises me, though, is your level of gullibility.
Planting a forest like this does more harm than good
@@dongatello6969 How so? It's not like they're destroying anything, the whole country is pretty much just grasslands all around.
Seems this wasn't about saving the environment, but about industry and production. But hey, if everyone wants to think they are eco saviors, go right ahead.
Not as good as trying to recreate old-growth forest but better than farming annual crops or pasture everywhere.
@@elongated_muskrat_is_my_name maybe, but long term they both trash for nature and biodiversity
Nowhere in this short was "saving the environment" mentioned.
Plus we can't live off good intentions. Sustainability isn't about keeping the world in a wild, untouched state. It's about reaching an equilibrium between human needs and the conservation of the ecosystem.
They're planting and maintaining forests. Does it matter what the purpose is? Way better than "going green" where green means switching to electronics that are made of rare metals mined in horrible processes, manufactured in factories powered by coal, and then shipped in diesel powered ships. Paper and whatever else they use the wood for at least offsets some of the carbon costs involved in making and shipping it, and, like in Uruguay, it creates an excuse to plant and maintain forests. In fact, since the goal of capitalism is growth, they need to plant more trees than they cut in order to grow the paper industry and meet future demand, so basically if we use more paper, we create incentive to grow more forests. The whole digital movement has just been to sell more electronics, it's not actually environmentally friendly, at least at the moment. Maybe one day when we can completely recycle electronics and are powered entirely by renewables, but even then, the fact that paper grows forests remains.
I can assure you this is better for the environment than deforestation
But breeding a single species of trees doesn’t seem fair to other plants….
It's a prairie, though.
If those other triggas want the corner they can step to it
@@monkeydog8681 we humans are too selfish… why not just plant many trees without business purposes…
Monoculture is what that's called.
True, but if anything else grows alongside the forests before they're harvested, and even if not, the tree canopies will create a great ecosystem that will prevent ecology loss.
They are tree farms, which is not exactly the same as a natural forest which has a variety of species and animal occupants
Great to see that a country is taking up forestry! In some western country’s it’s becoming so hard to harvest plantations and it’s killing the economy as well as being more destructive long term as other non renewable products may be used instead
depends on what was on that land originally, no? If "wastelands" or sparse open range, well...trees are pretty-good things, comparatively!!
To be honest Uraguay is so sparse I totally see them having more than enough room for trees. Given they also haven't had international level news problems I can assume they did a good here.
not necessarily if it’s grassland
I think that’s exactly the point here
Monocrop agriculture is about the farthest thing from nature short of a parking lot. Native Americans farmed for centuries in harmony with nature, yet with all our technological "advances" we're doing the opposite.
Great. Is is this going to complain about planting trees? We complain about cutting trees. Now we're going to complain about planting trees? By this logic, we can't do anything. Maybe stop complaining and support people living with nature, trying to develop economies that don't destroy but work with nature. If the execution is flawed or there is corruption, let's fix those. But don't demonize economic activities that involves agriculture just for it's sake.
Ecological deserts. Plant natives and go with diversity as a priority. Unlike humans, nature does better with diversity.
Aguante Uruguay carajo!
"there is more platend trees than natural forest in uruguay" well maybe because it's 90% pampas (steppes)? duh
This is actually the most efficient way to capture carbon. Every log they produce captures carbon permanently in abuilding, that building gets recycled and the wood is used again.
Yeah but then you got to burn the wood make bio char and then it will actually stay in the ground for like 4000 years and make little soil food web hotels for the bacterial.
@@DaveE99 burning the wood releases the carbon into the air...
Algae is better.
@@shawnpitman876 not if you put it out before it turns white. The difference between black bio char and white wood ash is like 90% mass difference and it becomes complete white when it’s burned off all its carbon.
@@shawnpitman876 bio chat will when buried last in soils for 4000 years or so
Not forrests. Timberfields, since they are planted with just one spieces of tree, just like grainfields.
These people always complain, forest or no forest
wow, it's beautiful for wood, a commodity that's often taken from endangered ecosystems, to be grown in a completely sustainable & renewable fashion is hopeful and awe inspiring.
Unless you are being sarcastic, I think you’ve misunderstood. These tree plantations are terrible for the environment and have very low biodiversity compared to natural forests that have millions of different species. It also destroys the natural ecosystems.
Trees are good but Watt about Hemp for pulp it produces 4 times more pulp per acre than trees per acre which take 20 years to grow and Hemp ENRICHES THE SOIL AND NO PESTICIDES TO GROW !
And in some areas you can get 2 harvest a year !
How tf does hemp enrich the soil?
@@docolemnsx the root system stays in the ground to be till in to the soil !
Hemp Hemp Hoojay !!!
@@docolemnsx "tf" did you get some education, or were you just being ignorant 🤔
That’s how all of our lumber that we use today is made and people think that we’re going out and cutting down random forests. America has a lot of them too especially in the south. Next time you are driving past some woods, notice how all the trees are planted in a line with spaces in between them.
Trees give off oxygen, and clean the air. So this program is not bad. It is a positive, and provides for employment too !!
lol. there is enough oxygen so pointless....and cleaning the air? lol
It is positive for business, not for nature.
With enough information you wouldn't be commenting "it is positive", trust me... read more
But it is bad. Monoculture is far more harmful than just leaving the grassland as it is. It's not positive, and if the wood just gets chopped down for toilet paper, it doesn't reduce emissions either.
@@Ealsante you are very negative, and see darkness everywhere. Find another venue to worry about everything in the environment.
Some humans are willing to fix this planet, others want to escape and think it's better idea to build another one.
They are NOT fixing anything. It's for industrial purposes.
@@XB10001okay how about instead we just chop down trees that grew naturally, would that be better?
The amount if wilful ignorance and misinformation in these comments is depressing. Unfortunately it seems a lot of people weren't taught in school the negatives of monocultures, impacts of deforestation, etc.
Every civilization on the planet needs materials made from wood. You complain when old timberlands are cut down and you complain when cultivated timber is cut down. The cognitive disconnect is astounding.
Too bad he spent a week in Uruguay and never learned how to properly pronounce the country.
Google earth has a history thing??
if you have the pro version of google earth then yes
It's free, you just have to download it
Street view is cool. Some previous shots go back to 2009. I was just watching a Realtor in Japan showing a 1.75 million US house in greater Tokyo. Found it on Google maps and street view in a couple of minutes. The latest shows an empty lot. Clicking into the past shows a house that used to be on the property. It all depends on how many times Google has done a drive by.
I don’t know if Hectors are such a good unit of measurement. Some Hectors are bigger than others…
Oh no, people planted trees specifically to cut down instead of cutting down native trees! The horror!
It's not like there were many native trees in Uruguay anyway, the whole country is just GRASSLAND
You see, why doesn’t central Africa do this???
Joke
this looks like it has potential,,if it could stop natural forests and ecologies from being destroyed😊
Planting monoculture forests is itself destructive of natural habitats. Have you ever seen a natural forest with only one species of tree?
This is not saving mother earth. They should plant diverse/different types of species of tress
Too bad their program can't be applied in Haiti. It could be a paradise.
Is there anything Haiti can apply?
I’ve never been able to understand this obsession with getting pulp from trees. Hemp is much quicker to grow & it’s also easier to mention it takes less chemicals & processing to get pulp from hemp. Also the yield per acre is higher with hemp.
Maybe woodpulp has different characteristics than hemppulp
if something makes more economic sense then it’s done, i don’t have a problem with reforestation
I used to be a logger, I don’t know about Europe but in America pulp wood is a byproduct of timber harvesting. The idea of not wasting paper to save trees is an absolute myth. Before we would load out pulp wood we would have to call the mill that day and see if what they were paying even covered the trucking to get it there. It’s usually just all the different pieces of wood that are either too small or otherwise wrong sort to make lumber with.
Based. This is far superior to cutting down rainforests and turning them into deserts after a few years of grazing.
Similar story is going on with the rest of Latin America. Destroy the ecosystem to stay relevant as a country.
Uruguay probably does have 1.1 million Hectors
Gracias por pasarte por nuestro país.
Espero hayas tenido una excelente estadía!
Suena mas bien que es para hablar mal de tu pais. A Vox le encanta hablar mal de paises que no sigan ideologias izquierda al pie de la letra como la agenda 2030 entre otros (y ojo no es que sea proruso, ultra-derecha ni nada de esas patrañas.)
@@IsAcRafT Estimado, no tengo ni idea de politica Española, ni de vox, solo lo superficial.
Por lo que vi, este mini docu trata de como se reforesta para mantener activa la industria y al menos replantar el daño al medio ambiente. Uruguay por suerte es de los mejores paises de Latam en cuanto a su economía, ya que al ser 3,5 millones de habitantes. La industria papelera, como dice el docu es una industria fuerte en el país, en parte es lo que nos mantiene a flote
Make Africa forest again so that everyone there will be farmers not industrialists. So developed countries can enjoy that products and keep these countries underdeveloped 😅.
Whats the benefit in keeping them undeveloped?
Are you living in 1850 that you think logging still operates on a bunch of guys with saws?
Africa still has massive forrests, what are you talking about?
@@Waywind420cheap labor
Uruguay noma
Better to plant trees and then cut them down than to go into the rain forest and cut down millions of trees without replanting.
1987 what a progress
The biodiversity and ecosystem of these artificial forest doesn’t seem good
Almost 3000000 additional acres that weren't there previously , amazing.
euhm...is use to be all forrests....just because the old forrest has been destroyed and for some part replaced with these plantations is not amazing...
@puntvandekomma9498 It's amazing, two billion dollars in exports , jobs and expertise. I'm sure those benefitting would rather have the jobs than have it all dismantled.
@@puntvandekomma9498 False. Uruguay wasn't all forests. The whole country is within the Pampa biome which are natural grasslands.
@@thevinisowhich are just as important as forests.
@@nickiemcnichols5397 I don't think grasslands can match forests in regards to biodiversity but even if they can I doubt there's much native fauna left there considering how much cattle they raise. I've seen people describing the whole country as a big farm so there's not much to preserve there really.
I ❤️ Uruguay and would love to move there...F Canada!
Myyy bad I was thinking of the Uyghurs. "The Uyghurs are a Turkic ethnic group native to Xinjiang,"
This is so 😔 sad. What are we doing to the beautiful planet Earth?
Is it helpful for the environment or is it like a tree farm type situation?
Monoculture = Bad for biodiversity, but decent for eating up carbon emissions. Overall real forest is 10x better.
@@Omit1tulliportin thats true. thank you!
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I work in Western Australia in the timber industry, the only place on earth that Jarrah grows. Makes me so angry that none of our governments since the 70s bothered to to protect the industry like this, now even ceasing logging won't save the forests due to global warming and overlogging. Fml
Now we're complaining that there's Too many trees?
Give me the TLDR
Green sports are just industrial tree plantations from the process of afforestation
They’re gonna make it like this is wrong and damaging the earth or something
The collection of trees is not forest. A forest is an ecosystem.
Pulp non-fiction.
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Uragay
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Oh no more trees what a terrible thing for the planet 😂😂😂
Hemp is far better though
Did you just say lumber instead of timber?
Awesome sauce. You rock, Uruguay!
Capitalism did this. They didn’t plant these trees out of the goodness of their heart.
You should see what communism does to trees
Nature has been destroyed over there, coastal swamps replaced by endless plantations of eucalyptus. The whole interior of the country has lost so much biodiversity.
Hey look at this country! U-R-Gay
So they are not forests, they are farms
trees
So what.. try using plastic toilet paper