Re:Carbon dioxide now more than 50% higher than pre-industri...
by reitanqild on Monday June 06, 2022 @12:26PM
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That is a good answer, thanks!
As expected I got a couple of downvotes, but it is worth it for answers like this.
Edit:
That is 100 trees for each car, isn't it? But the same 100 trees would do the job for the same car next year?
Edit 2:
Assuming steady state.
If you are confused about why you'd need to plant a whole continent of trees to offset our CO2 emissions, rememeber(or discover for the first time) that your average oil field(or coal mine for that matter) is a product of literally millions of years worth of carbon deposits - that's why oil is so incredibly energy dense.
According to some quick googling one tree absorbs about 25kg worth of CO2 per year. My car emits that much by just driving ~100 miles (using about 10L of petrol in the process). If I do 10k miles per year, that is a lot of trees just to offset emissions of a single vehicle, and there are millions of personal cars out there - and they aren't even the largest source of emissions.