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Re:CO2 already emitted will warm Earth beyond climate target... by pmiller2 on Friday January 08, 2021 @12:42AM (#25681878)
Well, you know what? Plants reproduce, too.

And, BTW, trees don't stop growing. They keep adding mass in their trunks. Literally the first google hit for "do trees stop growing": https://earthsky.org/earth/what-makes-a-tree-stop-growing

Edit: guess what? They even grow faster as they get older! https://www.npr.org/2014/01/16/262479807/old-trees-grow-fast...

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Re:CO2 already emitted will warm Earth beyond climate target... by adrianN on Friday January 08, 2021 @12:45AM (#25681890)
That is a different point.

Anyway, the land we have is limited. You literally can't cover the planet in one big forest to capture the gigatons of carbon we have released. You have to do active forest management and store the carbon somewhere stable, for example as biochar.

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Re:CO2 already emitted will warm Earth beyond climate target... by pmiller2 on Friday January 08, 2021 @12:47AM (#25681899)
Reducing the numbers of those pesky humans would help.
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Re:CO2 already emitted will warm Earth beyond climate target... by imtringued on Friday January 08, 2021 @03:30AM (#25682761)
That's the one thing climate change is good at once it gets bad. I thought we wanted to avoid this?
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Re:CO2 already emitted will warm Earth beyond climate target... by pmiller2 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @01:11AM (#25697861)
No. The one thing we want to avoid is making the Earth into an unlivable hellscape for those who remain alive.
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Re:CO2 already emitted will warm Earth beyond climate target... by adrianN on Friday January 08, 2021 @12:48AM (#25681906)
You can't reduce the number of humans quickly enough without a genocide.
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Re:CO2 already emitted will warm Earth beyond climate target... by pmiller2 on Friday January 08, 2021 @01:30AM (#25682149)
Doesn't mean we still don't need to reduce numbers for long term sustainability.
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