Re:Cement Produces More Pollution Than All the Trucks in the...
by wbronitsky on Sunday June 23, 2019 @11:37AM
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You seemingly just argued for planting more trees, in that if we did not try and replace the trees being cut down, we would have a negative growth rate of trees, which seems much worse than 0 growth rate. I’m not sure why you dismissed out of hand the argument, as it only took a hot second do deduce that it’s actually a good thing.
Re:Cement Produces More Pollution Than All the Trucks in the...
by elorant on Sunday June 23, 2019 @01:39PM
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You misunderstood. I'm not arguing whether we should plant trees or not, but whether that is enough. The answer is that it's not. We have to do much more things than just plant trees.
Re:Cement Produces More Pollution Than All the Trucks in the...
by JamesBarney on Sunday June 23, 2019 @11:51AM
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Just in case anyone else was curious about the numbers that removes 8% of carbon per year for 30-40 years.
Aside from that, the fact is that you need a shit ton of trees to negate climate change. Planting 1.7 billion acres of trees would remove only 8% of yearly carbon emissions. Where will we find the land to plant all those trees? We simple don't have the real estate.