I'm glad to see pushback on this article. I expected, frankly, knee-jerk reactions, but i'm pleased to see that people see through a lot of the bullshit.

The aspect I wanted to discuss: We're not losing our forests. At least not in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forests_of_the_United_States

We started out with a billion acres of forest in the US before Europeans came. We've lost about a quarter of that, but most of that was before a hundred years ago - for various reasons, it's pretty stable, and we're not only growing new wood for the most part instead of chopping down old growth, we're gaining forest instead of losing it.

I think we're - overall - doing a not bad job on the forestry front.

We need to keep moving away from petrochemicals (i.e. not just oil/gas/coal for power/transportation, but working towards finding replacements for all this damn plastic, too), and keep improving alternate energy sources.

I have some hope on that front - for a tiny example, studies have looked at electric vehicles with higher miles, and the batteries are lasting much better than was feared (90% after 90k miles is not bad), and with new battery tech we should be able to better store wind/solar energy for use when it's needed. There is some great news along those lines.

We need to get rid of regresive politicians who are keeping polluting energy alive (along with shitting on human rights), and to do that we need to focus on getting rid of our oligarchs powering that system.

But on the actual "nature" frnt, things are not bad in many ways (while not being great in others, sure).