How did Avatar Earth become totally deforested?

[PunkMaister]

I do have to ask because it cannot be that people decided to mow down all national parks in fact if Obama was to declare that he is going to mow down Yellowstone, cover up the grand canyon to make a Stadium etc, people would have his head on a pike the next day, seriously!
It had to be a disease brought by climate change or something along those lines.

[txen]

It's not really covered well as far as I know. Somehow I have a hard time believing it. The earth has a lot of land that goes almost straight up and down, yet has trees. That land is just not all that useful to people. Even with various diseases and climate change I still just don't see it happening 100%.

[madman]

I agree. I kind of beleive hat when Jake makes the comment about earth having no green, it is more of a general statement. I don't think he meant ALL of earth.

[Txum_kali'weya]

Nuclear war.

[PunkMaister]

Originally Posted by Txum_kali'weya

Nuclear war.

Then there would not be that many people as most would have perished as a result of that nuclear war. Unless most of those are RDA grown worker clones. I would not be surprised if that were the case.

Originally Posted by Devourment

Overpopulation.

Try again because to blame that alone is just so out there is not even funny. What the people ate all the trees, plants and blades of grass on the planet? Hmm I had no clue bark tasted so good.

[Devourment]

Originally Posted by PunkMaister

Then there would not be that many people as most would have perished as a result of that nuclear war. Unless most of those are RDA grown worker clones. I would not be surprised if that were the case.


Try again because to blame that alone is just so out there is not even funny. What the people ate all the trees, plants and blades of grass on the planet? Hmm I had no clue bark tasted so good.

Used them for building, for fuel. In Haiti, people cut down all of the trees to make charcoal. Know what they eat? Mud. Now, with the earth's population growing at a larger and larger rate, and the way most people live in excess, In a 150 year period there's going to be a heck of a lot more of us. We're destroying an alarming amount of forests each year, and when people are dying and starving, national parks aren't going to mean diddly squat.

[PunkMaister]

Originally Posted by Devourment

Used them for building, for fuel. In Haiti, people cut down all of the trees to make charcoal. Know what they eat? Mud. Now, with the earth's population growing at a larger and larger rate, and the way most people live in excess, In a 150 year period there's going to be a heck of a lot more of us. We're destroying an alarming amount of forests each year, and when people are dying and starving, national parks aren't going to mean diddly squat.

Actually that's not entirely true, the overpopulation problem is centered around the developing world specially Africa and not the developed world where Birth rates if anything have declined.

Haiti is a poor example as is the poorest nation on the face of this planet.

[Devourment]

Originally Posted by PunkMaister

Actually that's not entirely true, the overpopulation problem is centered around the developing world specially Africa and not the developed world where Birth rates if anything have declined.

Haiti is a poor example as is the poorest nation on the face of this planet.

If in this age a country can be like that, how do you expect it will be in 150 years when there's 20 billion people running around?

[Devourment]

Overpopulation.

[Sonoran Na'vi]

Originally Posted by PunkMaister

I do have to ask because it cannot be that people decided to mow down all national parks in fact if Obama was to declare that he is going to mow down Yellowstone, cover up the grand canyon to make a Stadium etc, people would have his head on a pike the next day, seriously!
It had to be a disease brought by climate change or something along those lines.

It is not too far fetched to believe people can completely deforest the environment in which they live; though, I don't see it happening on a global scale with much probability. An example of a society that completely deforested their environment was the inhabitants of Easter Island. But so far I do believe we have deforested about a half of the planet's forests and jungles.

On the flip side, there have been societies that have done a great job of protecting their environment from deforestation. Japan would be an example of this. One thing to note is, while Japan may have protected its own land from deforestation, this may have meant they purchased lumber from other countries that were/are in the process of deforesting the environment around them.

[Woodsprite]

Why was the title changed?

[PunkMaister]

Originally Posted by Woodsprite

Why was the title changed?

It was? Darn whoever did it should have had the decency of fixing the misspelled word How.

[Woodsprite]

Originally Posted by PunkMaister

It was? Darn whoever did it should have had the decency of fixing the misspelled word How.

It just seems like this had a bit of a longer title before. Maybe it's just me.

[Human No More]

Because "Meh, it doesn't matter if we cut this forest down. There's always another one"... until there wasn't any more

[fkeua vrrtep]

Originally Posted by PunkMaister

I do have to ask because it cannot be that people decided to mow down all national parks in fact if Obama was to declare that he is going to mow down Yellowstone, cover up the grand canyon to make a Stadium etc, people would have his head on a pike the next day, seriously!
It had to be a disease brought by climate change or something along those lines.

Nope , Jake clearly stated THEY (Skypeople) killed THEIR mother , at some point there must have been so many people , that the states just had to mow down the last resources earth had , which includes national parks and the rest of the rain forests etc. , overpopulation and greed are the 2 main factors for this , you can already see that earth is completely over-deforestated , there's already only 10% (!) of the rain forests left compared to what earth had before mankind decided to mow everything down and make expensive furniture out of it .

Also , you can see , that people are forced into more and more compromises , this must have been the case aswell : "if you want to keep up your living standard , you better agree to letting your city-park get mowed down ."