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Or we could plant more trees. Seriously, of all the crazy carbon capture ideas proposed, planting trees still beats them for effectiveness. Geoengineering will
by SolarNet 7y ago
Or we could plant more trees. Seriously, of all the crazy carbon capture ideas proposed, planting trees still beats them for effectiveness.
Geoengineering will make lots of money for whoever ends up doing it, but on the scale we are talking about they are mostly infeasible decades long projects that will take why more money and political will than just stopping emissions.
- dorgo 7y agoIs the tree thing viable? Can we plant enough trees and keep them long enough from burning or rotting?
- SolarNet 7y agoAs long as it doesn't get too hot from emissions first. If we get up to +3C or +4C we are talking about loosing habitability in large parts of the world for trees (and probably humans). https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/07/how-to-erase-100-years-carbon-emissions-plant-trees/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/07/how-t... It's just land the size of the United States to erase our last 100 years of emissions. Trees have the side benefit of being neutral or useful in many contexts. There is plenty of room.