Scientists Identify How Many Trees to Plant and Where to Stop Climate Crisis

Re:Scientists Identify How Many Trees to Plant and Where to ... by paulgerhardt on Monday September 30, 2019 @11:11AM (#21116164)

Trees are Big O in the carbon sink direction. Switching to renewable bags or paper straws is just making your huge carbon footprint slightly less huge by sub-percentiles.

Plant 100,000 trees in a summer though and you’ve more or less offset your life’s consumption - cheeseburgers or no.

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Re:Scientists Identify How Many Trees to Plant and Where to ... by gnulinux on Monday September 30, 2019 @06:10PM (#21120145)

But how do you find large enough area to plant 100,000 trees?

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Re:Scientists Identify How Many Trees to Plant and Where to ... by paulgerhardt on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @07:11PM (#21141769)

Iceland, Canada, and China all have programs to plant trees on public land.

The Canadian approach however is tree farming. Workers plant 75k trees each per summer and make about $60k in three months. The trees are later cut down and made into lumber. This is actually more ideal than letting the trees age-out provided the lumber isn’t later burnt.

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