Rainforests are Critical Biotic Pumps in a Decaying Ecosphere

 The planet’s ecosphere is somewhat endangered. In fact an algorithm designed to measure it’s condition found that 60% of the world’s ecosphere is in critical condition. Some people believe that restoration of carbon sinks would stabilize the global warming issue bu capturing and sequestering greenhouse gases such as CO2. There are additional challenges to the ecosphere and like on Earth though; such as the pervasive microplastics accumulated in the environment and human brains through ingestion with food and other vectors.

Some scientists have found that rain forests such as those of the tropics and the Pacific Northwest are transpire a vast amount of moisture into a thirsty sky may that provide precipitation downwind. 

The scale of the biotic pumps is immense.  Pacific Northwest forests may release twenty times the daily flow of the Mississippi River. Water is drawn upward in a tree by vacuum created when the moisture is transpired during photosynthesis and evaporation. Forests, and old growth forests in particular release H2O and various particles into the atmosphere that may catalyze condensation and rainfall and protect the surface from direct sunshine and heat absorption.

Old growth forests shade the ground and moisture in the soil reducing the effects of desiccation. Logging on a large scale for industrial and building purposes, much less for making paper, is devastating to the ecosphere and human prospects on Earth. 

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There are innumerable anthropogenic insults to the ecosphere and human health, as humans are part of the ecosphere, and intelligent political leadership would recognize and address the challenges meaningful. Unfortunately there aren't any responsible parties at the national level with competence in the field. There are no Mo Udalls running in primaries, and if there were they would through in moral poison pills such as homosexuality and abortion besides failing to secure the nations boundaries and the integrity of political self-determination in a meaningful democracy. They would create additional vast public debt and ineffective plans designed primarily to get themselves elected and enrich their constituency with conventional economics. Neither would national politicians have a rational plan to transition the U.S. economy to an effective contemporary ecospheric and economic synergy in a decade or less.

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I should note that there is a substantial percent of Christians that sometimes entertain and antipathetic eschatological viewpoint leading some to devalue the planet, in the belief that a new Earth will be created if and when the present Earth is destroyed with most of the population in a battle known as Armageddon. The percent may be as high as 35% of believers with the pre-tribulation point of view. They also tend to be more fundamentalist and conservative and somewhat reliable Republican voters.

I am Christian yet am not a pre-tribulationist. I believe that the tribulation of the Bible mostly applied to the destruction of Jerusalem with a million dead Jews in 70 A.D. So I am a post-tribulationist. My viewpoint is called partial preterism. That point of view is that some of the events regarded as end times have already occured.

So rather than abandoning concern for the world in expectation of a new one, many Christians believe that stewardship of the ecosphere is a responsibility like any other Christians may have regarding worldly affairs; do as best as one knows to do no harm and pursue God's will and the good so far as possible. The semi-sophistry of the pre-tribber's viewpoint may be regarded as a form of modern gnosticism enabling resource exploitation for profit in disregard of the harm to the ecosphere and the general well being of mankind. There is a book by Rev Kenneth Gentry titled 'He Shall Have Dominion' explaining the post-tribulationist interpretation of scripture.