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octopoc
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300-year-old Polish beech voted Tree of the Year
It’s the hidden cost of global trade. Hopefully reducing foreign trade can forestall further extinctions.
theoreticalmal
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Interesting, do you mean you hope for more tariffs and trade restrictions? I’ve never considered ecology might be impacted by those kinds of tools
lithocarpus
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Probably true to some extent. Though I imagine even if trade were cut in half most of the tree diseases would still get around. The likelihood of a pathogen to get around is not linearly proportional to the volume of trade.
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