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 sooham on Sunday April 21, 2019 @03:41PM (#19714099)

At one tree per second It would take 38000 years to plant 1.2 trillion trees. This proposition is beyond our currently available resources.

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Re:Planting 1.2T Trees Could Cancel Out a Decade of CO2 Emis... by tbabb on Sunday April 21, 2019 @03:49PM (#19714147)

I don't think that's the right metric for assessing feasibility. Humans can do more than one thing at the same time.

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Re:Planting 1.2T Trees Could Cancel Out a Decade of CO2 Emis... by sametmax on Sunday April 21, 2019 @03:45PM (#19714120)

At one carrot per second, you can't provide food for the entire human demand.

But we don't plant one carrot per second.

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Re:Planting 1.2T Trees Could Cancel Out a Decade of CO2 Emis... by dev_dull on Sunday April 21, 2019 @03:44PM (#19714111)

That sounds more doable than current legislation that would cost more money than exist in the entire world.

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