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So put another way if every country (~200) planted this many trees it would capture about half a percent of the carbon we release each year. That really puts i
by sqeaky 9y ago
So put another way if every country (~200) planted this many trees it would capture about half a percent of the carbon we release each year.
That really puts into perspective how much carbon is trapped in fossil fuel reserves for me. Put another way a few companies can dig so much carbon out of the ground the that they could outdo 195 countries each planting a billion trees by 200 fold.
- sliverstorm 9y agoWell, coal is in a very real sense concentrated trees, accumulated over massive timescales. So it isn't terribly strange that a handful of decade's worth of trees couldn't offset that.
- sqeaky 9y agoYou are totally correct, but it violates the intuition of many people.