Norway Turning Into Thick Woodland Amid Rural Depopulation

[Swordsmyth]

A staggering 160,000 Norwegian farms have been abandoned since 1960 in a nation of 5.5 million. A Norwegian researcher is calling for urgent measures to prevent the Scandinavian country from becoming overgrown.

Urbanization and depopulation of rural areas may have dramatic consequences for Norway's economy, Oskar Puschmann, landscape geographer at the Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy, has argued, calling for drastic measures to stop the country from becoming a thick forest, national broadcaster NRK reported.
Over the past 25 years, Puschmann has documented vast areas of Norway becoming overgrown. Since the millennium alone, 25,000 farms have been closed down in the Scandinavian country, bringing the total number since 1960 to a whopping 160,000.
"All we see is green," Puschmann said, claiming the reforestation process to be accelerating.
Puschmann identified the coastal areas of the northernmost provinces of Troms and Finnmark, the Trøndelag coast, as well as the outer fjords and woodlands of southern Norway as "particularly vulnerable."
According to Puschmann, when a farm is abandoned today, only the closest and easiest-to-cultivate parts of the plot are being re-used in a process resembling "cherry-picking." Puschmann compared Norway's agriculture to an egg, where only the yolks, that is profitable and intensely cultivated lands are maintained, whereas the white has gradually disappeared since the 1960s.

More at: https://sputniknews.com/environment/...ontent=2247492

[FunkBuddha]

Probably because it's easier to grow things in warmer climates. Even the Vikings knew that. Alarmists will get alarmed about some silly $#@! sometimes.es.

[euphemia]

Probably because it's easier to grow things in warmer climates. Even the Vikings knew that. Alarmists will get alarmed about some silly $#@! sometimes.es.

Cattle, sheep, and goats need pasture.

[luctor-et-emergo]

Probably because it's easier to grow things in warmer climates. Even the Vikings knew that. Alarmists will get alarmed about some silly $#@! sometimes.es.

It's just cheaper to import food than to grow it there. This is concerning taxes and regulation. They need to be lowered.

[euphemia]

That's not really the point, guys. When the government controls the food supply, it controls the people. If there is a drought or some other crisis in a place that sells food to Norway, guess what? The food goes away, and because there are no local sources for food, the people just starve to death.