Interesting that the article doesn’t mention the fact that the murumuru fruits are edible… But then, Astrocaryum murumuru is not even native to the area that the article is about, so it’s probably another species entirely that these women collect.

Amazon Restore is one that I’ll be watching from now on!

True. This is a major trend in Viet Nam right now.

Tanzania

endemic, native species, including valuable food sources such as avocado, lemon and mango

Something doesn’t seem right. Typo?

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Sugar can make a sticky mess, but if ever this happened to you, you could still take the van to a mechanic to have the fuel line and engine professionally cleaned.

What you REALLY want to avoid is fine silt or other hard particular matter that remains in suspension in the gasoline rather than dissolving. Such crystalline particles can potentially pass through the filter into the engine and cause many tiny scratches, wearing down the precisely engineered moving parts and doing serious damage that would be very expensive to fix. Before adding anything to your fuel tank, be sure to check it for suspended fine particulate matter, especially if the container has been sitting unattended for a while!

What’s the saying? “Humans were created by water in order to transport it uphill” ? Someone can figure out how to do it, if they care enough.

It is. :)

…The quality can vary a lot, both as a result of diverse conditions during ripening (damaged or not, in the water or baking in the sun…) and as a result of the huge genetic variation in this (dioecious) species, but in general, it’s delicious and nutritious and also very abundant! Making the chicha is the most practical way to consume large amounts of it, but either way, it’s an excellent and underappreciated fruit!

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/248930687_Nutritional_and_ecological_aspects_of_buriti_or_aguaje_Mauritia_flexuosa_Linnaeus_filius_A_carotene-rich_palm_fruit_from_Latin_America

(It also thrives in marshy areas where most fruit trees would not survive, making it an important plant for reforesting those areas.)

More about CLAs for those interested: Seriously, don’t sign a CLA by Drew Devault

I don’t know how hairless apes can tolerate living so far from the equator. It’s too hot and then it’s too cold.

Move your decimal.

I don’t think that solutions are going to come from within capitalism or the monetary system. None of that is real. Forest protection requires people living there on the land and defending the forest, and no amount of “national fiscal planning” is going to achieve that. People need to want to do it, not for money, but for its own sake. If they planted the trees and/or eat from the trees, that’s a reasonable incentive…

Global Warming Has Accelerated: Are the United Nations and the Public Well-Informed?

Fun fact: people grow durian in Zanzibar.

If historically unforested land is artificially forested, then that might be worth crediting to humans, but that has never happened on a meaningful scale, and realistically, I don’t know if it could. If deforested land grows back (at whatever rate), then that is just nature cleaning up the mess as it always has, and the amount of carbon dioxide sequestered on that land is always going to be less than what would have been sequestered had humans not slashed and burned the vegetation in the first place. The forest has to recapture the amount of carbon dioxide released by deforestation just to “catch up” before it can continue where it left off, so to speak.

My understanding is that they want to consider only the effect that human activities are having on the climate, and so they account for all sources of humans’ emissions, but the amount of photosynthesis currently happening would happen even in the absence of human activity. Including photosynthesis in the accounting for humans’ emissions therefore doesn’t make sense, whereas accounting for deforestation is crucial, as that is a real change due to human activity; even if deforested land reforests itself, the initial emissions would not have occurred if not for humans’ actions.

Is a fruitarian someone who only eats fruit?

Yes.

Do these people exist?

Yes, though not many of them as far as I know.

Do they have normal bathrooms?

Most probably poop outside or in a bucket, at least if their situation allows.

Very tasty! Not on the level of something like durian or chempedak, but very creamy and savoury and satisfying. Fairly easy to make a meal of them. It’s a bit of an acquired taste, not in the sense that isn’t appealing from the start, but in the sense that it gets better and better each time that you eat it. Highly recommend.

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Sure. I take pride in planting fruit trees regardless of the result. Plus, anything that makes life more difficult for the cattle ranchers means that they have less time and energy to devote to cutting down more of the forest. But I suspect that at least some of the engkalas will survive to adulthood. They want to sell that land anyway.

Sometimes I do ask neighbours for their permission to plant fruit trees on their lands for our mutual consumption, but I don’t negotiate with animal abusers.