On: Beavers are helping restore wetlands and create buffers against wildfires

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Beavers are terraforming Alaska, actually I guess technically whatever the opposite of terraforming is?

https://www.businessinsider.com/beavers-invade-alaska-arctic...

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Humans: cause global climate change

Animals: react to changing climate

Humans: look at how these animals have wrecked my planet, we must intervene to stop them

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also Earth can’t undergo terraforming or antiterraforming. It will always be fully earth-like (terra-formed).

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> Earth can’t undergo terraforming or antiterraforming. It will always be fully earth-like

Terraforming tends a world towards Earth’s “pristine” state. We wouldn’t start dumping PFAS on Venus solely because they’re on Earth.

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Shrill article. The tundra is going away. We can’t refrigerate a million square miles. Do beavers replace the dying tundra with something that is more resilient to climate change? Oh hell yes. Let them.

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Castorgenically induced terrestrial succession

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Restoration?

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bioforming