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Badass Fruiterrarist Land (amazonrestore.codeberg.page)

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fruiterrarism (noun); the act of blatantly planting as much fruit as possible, regardless of what non-fruitarians may think, with the aim of creating an alternative to Babylon

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Um. If the goal is to fix the environmental issues, wouldn't it be better to ask the local indigenous folk what the forest should look like? A monoculture of fruit trees isn't going to help the local flora and fauna recover. I'm fact, it will probably make the environmental issues worse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

ask the local indigenous folk

Who do you think is cutting down the forest in the first place to graze cows and plant cash crops?

a monoculture of fruit trees

That isn't what this project is doing. They even state that monoculture farming is bullshit and suggest natural regeneration ("Laissez-Faire") as one of the reforestation methods.

it will probably make the environmental issues worse

Worse than grazing cows?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I don’t know the specifics of this local area but usually it’s not the indigenous people driving deforestation in the Amazon. Not to say it couldn’t be in this case but I definitely wouldn’t assume that.

That said, I still like the idea of this project even if it’s a little unconventional. We may need unconventional ideas in this era of ecological collapse.

Maybe if I need to escape the gestapo I’ll join on lol