JuneSim63 💚Mar 15

"She says that while the scientific community has often had a “harder time” absorbing her ideas, her work aligns with indigenous wisdom on how forests work and tends to make intuitive sense to lay people, too"

#Forests #Trees #WoodWideWeb #Ecology #Biodiversity

‘My ideas are a little revolutionary’: ecologist Suzanne Simard on intelligent forests, the climate and her critics | Trees and forests | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/14/my-ideas-are-a-little-revolutionary-ecologist-suzanne-simard-on-intelligent-forests-the-climate-and-her-critics

‘My ideas are a little revolutionary’: ecologist Suzanne Simard on intelligent forests, the climate and her critics

Her research popularised the idea of the wood wide web, but the scientific backlash was brutal. As the author of The Mother Tree returns to the forest in a new book, she discusses her battle to reimagine our relationship with nature

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@junesim63 Sadly, the same logic as ‘the seas are too big to pollute’, and look where that got us.

- monocultures of anything are bad

- we may not understand how forests work, but we definitely don’t understand how soil works.

Mar 15 at 12:03pmWeb