Decrement carbon: Stripe's negative emissions commitment

Re:Decrement carbon: Stripe's negative emissions commitment by Beltiras on Friday August 16, 2019 @06:20AM (#20713710)

Trees will actually do the trick. I looked for an international business that would plant a 1000 trees for me which would offset my entire carbon footprint for my entire life. Didn't find anything except a local one in Iceland [1] in Icelandic only (good luck with Google Translate).

I can offset my footprint for 800$/year and I think it's going to be my New Years resolution. No more carbon from me.

Finding land and planning trees for it should be a global business. There are a lot of people like me with disposable income that would invest in something like that.

[1] https://kolvidur.is

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Re:Decrement carbon: Stripe's negative emissions commitment by ElKrist on Friday August 16, 2019 @09:04AM (#20714744)

Please also include a resolution to reduce your carbon emissions.

Remember that planting trees only work if you have the guarantee that in the future these trees will not be burned. Also, some natural decomposition also emits CO2

Planting trees can delay/slow down climate change. What happens in a decade when planting trees does not scale anymore and we've kept increasing our emissions in the same time?

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Re:Decrement carbon: Stripe's negative emissions commitment by Beltiras on Friday August 16, 2019 @09:16AM (#20714816)

I am about 50 years old. Planting trees scales for at least 50 years. Something on the order of 1000 trees will offset the entire footprint of a upper-middle class non-jetsetter (eats meat, travels 2-4 times per year, car, modest house).

There are a lot of technology promises on the horizon that will hopefully solve the next inflection point, but that's not my climate crisis, it will be the next generation. Hopefully by then the human race will have developed fusion or other energy technologies.

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