Planting 1.2T Trees Could Cancel Out a Decade of CO2 Emissions

Re:Planting 1.2T Trees Could Cancel Out a Decade of CO2 Emis... by tim333 on Sunday April 21, 2019 @01:29PM (#19713287)

I guess it depends on the location. Some have cattle and deforestation. Natural reseeding can be slow. Though in England if you leave a bit of land alone it'll pretty much be woodland in 30 years or so.

If anyone fancies donating to plant a few 100 or 1000 trees https://donate.trees.org/campaign/trees-for-the-futures-eart... does good stuff for about 15c/tree. It doesn't take very much to cancel out your personal CO2 load that way. I donated I think $100 for 1000 trees a while back.

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Re:Planting 1.2T Trees Could Cancel Out a Decade of CO2 Emis... by aidenn0 on Sunday April 21, 2019 @02:06PM (#19713524)

At that rate, Bezos could offset 5 years of the entire world's CO2 emissions?

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Re:Planting 1.2T Trees Could Cancel Out a Decade of CO2 Emis... by tim333 on Sunday April 21, 2019 @02:37PM (#19713716)

Unfortunately it relies on volunteer villagers with unused land so there's a limit to how much capital could be deployed that way.

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