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> going into negative carbon emissions, which nobody know yet how to do exactly Pretty sure planting a lot of trees is a good start
by aplummer 9y ago
> going into negative carbon emissions, which nobody know yet how to do exactly
Pretty sure planting a lot of trees is a good start
- undersuit 9y agoYou have to keep planting them. And you have to watch that they are developing ecosystems to encourage more carbon sequestration into the ecosystem. And you have to keep it up, and water them, and fight attempts to strip the plot and turn it back into monoculture farmland, and you probably need to make sure no fires happen in the first couple hundred years until you're ok with natural fires dumping carbon back into the atmosphere which also entails some kind of light controlled burn or very targeted application of intense heat for any species that rely on fires to reproduce. I'm totally for it, I love having trees everywhere, especially as I walk to most of my destinations.
- zaro 9y agoI definitely is a good start, with precondition on stopping deforestation. But trees won't give negative carbon emissions unless industry cuts emissions dramatically. And also, the other problem with trees is you might have to convert farmlands back to forest, what happens to the food production then?
- aplummer 9y agoI guess my point was that we do know how to do it, just not how to muster the will. In a war economy climate change would be disaster averted in a decade.