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Re:Planting 1.2T Trees Could Cancel Out a Decade of CO2 Emis... by mikestew on Sunday April 21, 2019 @02:54PM (#19713814)
One could plant that many pine saplings in a weekend with good hand tools. Mechanize it, spread the cost amongst many, I believe it wouldn’t cost, relative to what it offsetting, all that much. Land acquisition would probably be the larger obstacle.
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Re:Planting 1.2T Trees Could Cancel Out a Decade of CO2 Emis... by strainer on Sunday April 21, 2019 @03:21PM (#19713978)
I once worked for a short spell in a tree-planting squad in the highlands of Scotland. The seasoned planters were olympically fit and each planted around 100 saplings an hour across rough mountainside.
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