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This is pretty fast. From memory regrowing tropical forests can fix 20 tonnes of carbon per hectare per year. Most of these forests are slash-and-burned on a 30
by danieltillett 9y ago
This is pretty fast. From memory regrowing tropical forests can fix 20 tonnes of carbon per hectare per year. Most of these forests are slash-and-burned on a 30 to 50 year cycle that is carbon neutral, but a slash-and-char approach of about 30% of the forests would capture our total carbon output [0]. It would also have the nice side effect of providing local jobs to some of the poorest people in the world.
0. Research I did when I was an academic and never published. I really should get around to finishing it.
- StavrosK 9y agoThis sounds like a quick, easy and effective solution. Why is nobody doing this?
- dingo_bat 9y agoProbably because there is no quarterly profit associated with it.
- jeppz 9y agoIs there money in it?
- vertex-four 9y agoBecause the people who have the money to do it have absolutely no immediate incentive to do it.
- PeterisP 9y agoWe don't have a global political consensus that we should be spending massive amounts of money to reduce global warming at all and, more importantly, who will be paying for that.
- danieltillett 9y agoA few reasons, but the major one is the lack of money interested in actually doing something about pulling the CO2 out of the atmosphere. I actually worked on a solution for the money problem too (I got a bit obsessed with doing something about climate change back in 2007). This I have written about if anyone is interested [0]. 0. https://www.tillett.info/2015/12/13/preventing-global-climate-collapse/ https://www.tillett.info/2015/12/13/preventing-global-climat...