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Re:Scientists Identify How Many Trees to Plant and Where to ... by dsfyu404ed on Monday September 30, 2019 @10:49AM (#21115939)
But people want their SUVs and cheeseburgers. If you force people's standard of living to go backwards too far you will soon be voted out of office or have a revolt to deal with. Telling people to consume less does not work at the scale we are dealing in here. We need to find technical solutions because the cumulative lifestyle changes would be so massive they are a non-starter. With sufficient technical solutions the behavioral solutions can hopefully be small enough to be realistic.
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Re:Scientists Identify How Many Trees to Plant and Where to ... by falcolas on Monday September 30, 2019 @11:09AM (#21116148)
This is an important consideration. Our lives are the best they have been in, well, ever. And our lives are better for the very reasons that cause problems with the environment.

Solutions to these problems really do need to take the human factor into consideration as well. Failing to do so will continue the flailing we're currently seeing.

Planting trees is a great start; I know of few people who want fewer trees.

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Re:Scientists Identify How Many Trees to Plant and Where to ... by rammy1234 on Monday September 30, 2019 @11:07AM (#21116127)
Solution is always "provide incentives" for any meaningful change to happen. Without incentives , without recognition, without working on human mentality nothing changes.
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