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SilviaTerra | Union Square Ventures
of carbon flow in the biosphere: Is global vegetation a net sink or source of carbon? and Will future warming turn soils into a major carbon source?
Vaclav Smil • Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years
A natural forest is illegible. A tangle of plants. This is inconvenient from the standpoint of harvesting lumber. How do you quantify yield? Can you even make a meaningful map of this mess? Much easier to clear the forest and plant a legible “scientific” forest. Uniform rows of trees that produce good lumber. Now we can count the trees, make a map,... See more
Gordon Brander • Soulbinding Like a State
Carbon Arc offers a marketplace for buying and selling licensed, real world transaction data to power LLMs and enterprise applications
Carl Franzenventurebeat.com
“We emphasize domination and competition in the management of trees in forests… We emphasize factions instead of coalitions,” wrote Simard. It applies to the web, too. Social media companies segment and isolate us in order to package us up in tidy tranches for advertisers, just as big timber clear-cuts healthy, complex ecosystems and replaces them ... See more