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Barren-Land Fallacy: Trees Aren’t Always Better

Barren-Land Fallacy: Why Trees Aren’t Always Better Why in the News ? The concept of the barren-land fallacy highlights the ecological risks of treating every treeless landscape as degraded land. It stresses that grasslands, savannahs, wetlands, scrublands and deserts are naturally valuable ecosystems requiring context-specific restoration. Understanding the Barren-Land Fallacy: The barren-land fallacy assumes that …

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