TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reid, John W.,
TI  - Ever green: saving big forests to save the planet 
SN  - 1324050373
AV  - SD390.7.C55 R353 2023
U1  - 634.9 23
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - New York : W. 
PB  - W. Norton & Company, 
KW  - Forests and forestry
KW  - Climatic factors
KW  - Carbon sequestration
KW  - Climate change mitigation
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-289) and index
N2  - "Five stunningly large forests remain on Earth: the Taiga, extending from the Pacific Ocean across all of Russia and far-northern Europe; the North American boreal, ranging from Alaska's Bering seacoast to Canada's Atlantic shore; the Amazon, covering almost the entirety of South America's bulge; the Congo, occupying parts of six nations in Africa's wet equatorial middle; and the island forest of New Guinea, twice the size of California. These megaforests are vital to preserving global biodiversity, thousands of cultures, and a stable climate, as economist John W. Reid and celebrated biologist Thomas E. Lovejoy argue convincingly in Ever Green. Megaforests serve an essential role in decarbonizing the atmosphere--the boreal alone holds 1.8 trillion metric tons of carbon in its deep soils and peat layers, 190 years' worth of global emissions at 2019 levels--and saving them is the most immediate and affordable large-scale solution to our planet's most formidable ongoing crisis." -- Amazon
ER  -