Precies. We zitten hier met 416(!) mensen per km2, in Canada is dat 4 per km2, in Amerika 33 per km2, in Frankrijk 106 per km2 en in Denemarken 132/km2.
En dan raar opkijken dat de druk op vrij natuurlandschap hoog is.
Mijn advies, om ecologische en klimatologische rampen te voorkomen is niet meteen overal dingen bij gaan bouwen, maar om *af* te bouwen. O.m. door bijv. globaal een max 1 kind per ouderpaar vast te leggen, en daarop streng te handhaven. Dat is de meest efficiente strategie en voorkomt enorm veel klimaat-vluchtelingen-stromen. En minder bomen/bossen kappen. Ook niet meer preventief (zoals men in NL massaal doet, om 'stormschade' te voorkomen), liever een verhoogd stormschade-potentieel dan nog verdere uitbreiding van hitte-eilanden en meer extreem weer. Familielid omschrijft het goed;
In my lifetime human population has more than doubled, from 3.5 billion when I was born to 7.7 billion now. Yet during the same time more than 300 billion trees have disappeared and not been replenished/replaced. Research by Thomas Crowther et al concluded that earth loses 15 billion trees each year, while only 5 billion new trees are gained, a net loss of 10 billion trees per year. Of which the vast majority is intentional (by humans). That means over 1.1 million trees are disappearing from earth every hour, 24/7/365. Tree cover is an enormous influence on surface temperature and moisture content. Very sensitive to becoming feedback loops in changing climates; Trees can’t migrate at the observed speeds of change, each migratory process is either coincidence, man-made or by evolutionary drivers (mutant trees). Trees go down sooner when soil is drier or wetter, when winds are stronger, when extreme temperatures make them less resistant to disease, older trees now die younger reducing leaf-count, and there’s a growing number of wildfires. CO2 intake is highly impacted by all of them, and they are -obviously- feedback loops. What’s more, the water that an average grown tree transpires daily has a cooling effect equivalent to two domestic air conditioners set to “freeze” mode.
That’s just not going to be sustainable in any way, it’s a recipe for disaster.