This book, of major importance for the survival of life, is available online
https://www.bioticregulation.ru/pubs/pubs5.php
For a good introduction see
https://news.mongabay.com/2012/02/new-meteorological-theory-argues-that-the-worlds-forests-are-rainmakers/
Chapter 1 provides a good overview. The scientist authors carefully detail what needs to be done to preserve life on earth. Species develop and cooperate to keep the biota livable. In one organism cells and organs work together to perform necessary functions. Cancer is when one unit grows with out regard for the others. Humans are like a cancer, the species that grows without regard for the rest of the environment. To maintain life, the large animals can use no more than 1% of the resources, but now use up to 10%. The maximum human population supportable is 1/2 billion, if those people live a simple life, not the modern first-world consuming. We must leave the forests alone to regulate the water balance. It's not the carbon-dioxide that is crucial but the forests that regulate the water cycle. There is much more water vapor in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. The money gained from forests is a trivial part of the economy and so can be dispensed with. Forest with their extensive leaf area evaporate more water than the relatively flat ocean. The warm water vapor rises and comes down as rain or snow which is much more compact so a low-pressure area over land is created and the wind blows from the ocean bringing more rain and snow. The rain water or snow melt returns to the ocean to recycle. Native trees have genetically evolved to know the right amount of water to evaporate. Too much and the soil dries out and cannot support life.
https://www.bioticregulation.ru/pubs/pubs5.php
For a good introduction see
https://news.mongabay.com/2012/02/new-meteorological-theory-argues-that-the-worlds-forests-are-rainmakers/
Chapter 1 provides a good overview. The scientist authors carefully detail what needs to be done to preserve life on earth. Species develop and cooperate to keep the biota livable. In one organism cells and organs work together to perform necessary functions. Cancer is when one unit grows with out regard for the others. Humans are like a cancer, the species that grows without regard for the rest of the environment. To maintain life, the large animals can use no more than 1% of the resources, but now use up to 10%. The maximum human population supportable is 1/2 billion, if those people live a simple life, not the modern first-world consuming. We must leave the forests alone to regulate the water balance. It's not the carbon-dioxide that is crucial but the forests that regulate the water cycle. There is much more water vapor in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. The money gained from forests is a trivial part of the economy and so can be dispensed with. Forest with their extensive leaf area evaporate more water than the relatively flat ocean. The warm water vapor rises and comes down as rain or snow which is much more compact so a low-pressure area over land is created and the wind blows from the ocean bringing more rain and snow. The rain water or snow melt returns to the ocean to recycle. Native trees have genetically evolved to know the right amount of water to evaporate. Too much and the soil dries out and cannot support life.
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