In 1973 a reportedly drunk driver flattened a tree in the middle of the Sahara, which sounds unremarkable until you learn it was the only tree for 250 miles around, a 300-year-old acacia so isolated it was marked on maps covering half a continent. https://share.google/ePM21R48Aq0VRqTUb

  • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
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    8 days ago

    Yes, we can create an artificial environment that can host a tree literally anywhere on Earth. That’s not the same thing.