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Re:Denmark will plant 1B trees and convert 10% of farmland i... by pkulak on Sunday November 24, 2024 @01:45AM (#42226336)
No they won't. If they started tomorrow planting 100,000 trees a day, and never took a single day off, they would finish up in 2052. What kind of nursery can even grow 100,000 saplings of conifer a day?

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-climate-deniers-pl...

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Re:Denmark will plant 1B trees and convert 10% of farmland i... by jltsiren on Sunday November 24, 2024 @03:53AM (#42226822)
It would take a couple of years at the scale Finnish forest industry is operating.

Large parts of Europe are basically forests that have been temporarily cut down. If you let the land be, the forest will often grow back with minimal effort.

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Re:Denmark will plant 1B trees and convert 10% of farmland i... by im3w1l on Sunday November 24, 2024 @02:11AM (#42226434)
Saplings? Wouldn't it be easier to seed? Or you could plant a few more mature trees sparsely and rely on them to seed?
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Re:Denmark will plant 1B trees and convert 10% of farmland i... by alberth on Sunday November 24, 2024 @03:51PM (#42230464)
Using seedballs, you could conceivably plant 1B trees in just a couple months by dropping the seedballs from airplanes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBbU4MQftc8

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Re:Denmark will plant 1B trees and convert 10% of farmland i... by pkulak on Friday November 29, 2024 @01:31AM (#42271427)
That’s not planting a tree.
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