On: Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat

[epolanski]

Even a huge tree, is still a tree in the forest. You need to look at consumption patterns, not just energy, which derive from the first anyway.

[Dylan16807 → epolanski]

Your chosen forest exists within the even bigger forests of human action and ecology. That doesn't mean we have to focus that wide. When one part of the picture is both specialized and huge, it makes sense to focus on it.