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For $15/US resident/year (on average), you could sequester all the carbon you produce that year by having 150 trees planted in return for your donation: http://
by ph0rque 10y ago
For $15/US resident/year (on average), you could sequester all the carbon you produce that year by having 150 trees planted in return for your donation: http://shindyapin.tumblr.com/post/141034501197/climate-change-solution-simplified http://shindyapin.tumblr.com/post/141034501197/climate-chang...
- saycheese 10y agoREVISION: If true, seems like it would feasible for the US, but unclear how regions like Africa & Asian would do the same. Any ideas? Below is the original comment with correction for accounting error. _________ $15 per person per US person[2] per year does not sound like a lot, but in sum per year it's a massive amount of money; amount would be $4,847,228,805. For example, per person using the 2014 net collections[1] of the US's net tax collections divided by the population estimate for July 2016[2], the US revenue per person is $8,000. [1] ($2,690,755,432) https://www.irs.gov/uac/soi-tax-stats-collections-and-refunds-by-type-of-tax-irs-data-book-table-1 https://www.irs.gov/uac/soi-tax-stats-collections-and-refund... [2] (323,148,587) http://www.census.gov/popclock/ http://www.census.gov/popclock/ On the spreadsheet, money amounts are in thousands of dollars.
- smarterclayton 10y agoThe US tax charts are reported in thousands, so 2.6 trillion / 323 million = 8k per person, not 8
- saycheese 10y agoThanks, missed the "Money amounts are in thousands of dollars" - corrected the comment above.
- woofyman 10y agoYour first link, the numbers are in thousands of dollars so the correct amount is $2,690,755,432,000 nearly 3 trillion dollars.
- saycheese 10y agoThanks, corrected the error.
- ph0rque 10y agoWhat do taxes have to do with it? What I'm saying in my blog post is if you want to do something about your personal CO2 emissions and you live in the US, you could donate $15/year to sequester all of them (if you don't live in the US, you would probably need to donate less than $15 to sequester all your CO2 for that year, but you would have to do the calculation yourself).
- saycheese 10y agoEdited my comment to reflect this accounting error, revisit the comment to see the correction and related revision. At the point you're spending billions in sum in a country for a reoccurring & necessary theoricially non-profit service, it would make more sense to do this via the government; yes, I get it's not a requirement, assumes government is functions efficiently, etc.
- ph0rque 10y agoIt might theoretically make more sense to do it via the government, but you can do this right now without waiting for the government.
- jschwartzi 10y agoIf that's all it would cost, I would gladly donate $45. $15 for myself and $30 for my parents.
- saycheese 10y agoAgree, in the context of the annual budget of the US, seems like this is possible at scale, but feels like this is too simple of an answer; looking into it.
- ph0rque 10y agoThis is the second year I've been donating $100 for my family of six, and a bit more on top of that. (Sorry if this comes off as bragging; my intent is to show that I am putting my money where my mouth is.)
- thephyber 10y agoPlease do research into whatever organization you choose to use. Some of the carbon offset organizations that plant trees are having a hard time finding people and land to do the work, since cash crop trees tend not to be good carbon collector/stores, poor farmers tend to forego the pay-for-trees to be able to grow cash crops. I don't know the specific organizations, but I have heard that this can be a complication issue.
- astrange 10y agoDonating to smaller charities tends to go to more specific projects, like these: https://www.cooleffect.org https://www.cooleffect.org https://www.coolearth.org https://www.coolearth.org https://carbonfund.org/projects/ https://carbonfund.org/projects/ http://www.edenprojects.org http://www.edenprojects.org It'd be great if any of these had published progress reports (not to say they don't but I haven't read them). Seems like you could fake one of these pretty easily if you tried.
- david-given 10y agoIt doesn't sequester the carbon for very long, though --- the carbon lifecycle of a tree is, what, decades? It consumes carbon when it grows, and then it releases it again when it rots. So it's not really a long term solution.