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2. Don't worry about the specific article—there are hundreds more, and more relevant ones. The lesson here is we face syndemics, overlapping epidemics that cluster with inequity, not just distinct pandemics. All reinforce each other 
1. It is no new idea to replace plastic, steel, concrete etc. with bamboo, just as these materials originally replaced timber, clay, and bamboo. When indigenous people in Taiwan move, they plant bamboo before all else, “because it does everything timber does and is much lighter.” 
2. After 40 years of climate science - first AGGG, now IPCC -, everyone feels they know climate. Yet experts only really know their own field. Generalists and practitioners can implement solutions but need experts to develop them. Bamboo as climate solution is entirely unexplored 
2. Giant bamboo dwarfs trees. As grass, it grows 30 times (!) faster and can be harvested every year. Timber takes decades; too slow. Stunningly, no one in the west described the unique climate mitigation potential of bamboo yet. - Note the rhizome system: 
2. Three months ago I started on bamboo: no one else in Europe seemed to have systematically analyzed or even considered its global climate mitigation potential when used as agricultural crop rather than natural forests, which do little climate mitigation.
Arijit documented this too. If you read the papers, it's a false analogy and poor reasoning.
SARS-CoV-2 wasn't the last disruption to import based businesses. Our basic climate policy warning for seven years now. One of the reasons I'd encourage everyone to look into starting to grow Moso bamboo (phyllostachys edulis) or other suitable species in Southern Europe as well. 
3600 square kilometers, for the mathematicians here 
2. I shared hundreds of scientific references - and as political scientist I only explain molecular and epidemiological dynamics because without scientific foundation, you will get no effective policy. But no one wrote a real, comprehensive narrative yet.
"I don't care if you follow us for further apathetic dad jokes and tasteful scicomm" 🤣🤣
2. Ends on a high note 
2. Not joking about the "teach a man to hunt, fish and cook and you can get great dinner every night unless global deoxygenation and acidification get all the fish in which case you'll have other problems" thing. Here your search function, go wild and read scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo…
2. A long thread with 200+ scientific references, as multiple others, cover this, so if you're the type of reader who can extract highly specific information from dense articles, go for it. It's not didactically organized though; I'll rewrite over time.