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Re:Scientists Identify How Many Trees to Plant and Where to ... by lexpar on Monday September 30, 2019 @02:15PM (#21118130)
I'm interested in the justification for this. The following link says about 25% of US GHG emissions are from coal, but coal burning makes up the vast majority GHG emissions for electricity production.

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/index.php?page=environme...

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Re:Scientists Identify How Many Trees to Plant and Where to ... by api on Monday September 30, 2019 @02:28PM (#21118270)
You are only looking at US emissions, not world emissions. The US is not the only country on Earth and its use of coal has been falling for some time now.
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Re:Scientists Identify How Many Trees to Plant and Where to ... by lexpar on Monday September 30, 2019 @04:33PM (#21119417)
Oh, I was not aware the US is not the only country on Earth.

Snark aside, here's a source that says globally coal power production accounts for 30% of global CO2 emissions. That's a lot, but not quite the whole problem.

https://www.iea.org/geco/emissions/

Actually I agree with you that getting upset over meat eating and plastic straws is a silly way to avoid tackling the much larger issues.

Also, I was genuinely asking for more information, and am still interested.

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