I figure that if we’re going to talk about why bamboo is so awesome all the time, maybe I should explain why. If you’ve ever walked through a forest before, you know how beautiful they are. Well, believe it or not, forests often get cut down; sometimes a lot.
There are a whole bunch of reasons why a forest gets cut down. Your sweet hardwood floor? Came from a forest. That paper you’re writing on? Yup, forest. Your sweet Brio trainset? That too.
So, cutting down trees is a necessary thing for us to live; especially for things like making houses. But that doesn’t mean cutting down forests is a very desirable thing. Forests do a lot of good things for us: they provide the world with oxygen, are significant carbon sinks (and clean the air in other ways too), are home to a lot of unique and fragile biodiversity, they prevent soil erosion and improve soil quality and finally (and maybe most importantly) they’re great for making tree forts. So the more forest we cut down, the less of this sweet stuff we get. Kind of a bummer right?
A lot of people quite a while ago realized what a bummer this is, and decided to plant a lot of trees, which is a really great thing. But unfortunately, as a planet we still aren’t planting them fast enough. But we’re getting better; we did a better job this past decade than we did the decade before of planting trees. And using bamboo instead of traditional wood helps too, because bamboo grows back from its shoot on its own; usually really quickly.
So, as you can see, even though we’re improving, we’re actually doing alarmingly bad. But everyone can do their part; encouraging tree planting campaigns and being really conscious of what you’re buying is a good idea (for example a bamboo deck does much less harm than a maple one). Anyways, if we can turn this trend around, we can help our planet, our health and our economies a lot.
Also, Janell smells.
See you next week!
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