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This is a great illustration of how there is no hope of sequestration as a solution. We're unlikely to plant even just a billion trees.
by EamonnMR 8y ago
This is a great illustration of how there is no hope of sequestration as a solution. We're unlikely to plant even just a billion trees.
- weberc2 8y agoWhy do you suppose that is the case? Is the cost per tree too great? Are you pessimistic about lowering that cost via automation? I read recently about drones that can drop large numbers of pods containing fertilizer and seeds over a huge area in little time; it doesn’t seem infeasible to iterate on a concept like that and drive down the costs considerably.
- avmich 8y agoArticle says "The United Nations’ Trillion Tree Campaign has planted nearly 15 billion trees across the globe in recent years."
- typon 8y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_Tree_Tsunami https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_Tree_Tsunami Successfully completed in 2017
- riffraff 8y agoSo we need the same effort only 1200 times over, which means something like 5 times for each country on earth including the very tiny ones. Still, every little helps.
- dilyevsky 8y agoUh “Each year Americans plant at least 1.6 billion trees or about 6 trees for each one we use.” - according to 5 sec of googling
- kekeke 8y agothis comment is a great example of baseless couch-general type of pessimism
- WalterBright 8y agoAny solution would need multiple avenues. Abandoning each avenue because it isn't a total solution by itself guarantees defeat.
- avip 8y agoWell, not with that attitude.
- dfuego 8y agoWe're on the way to drive billions of dollars for forest restoration via carbon credits. With economic incentives that work it absolutely possible. I'm the founder of Pachama (YC W19) where we're working to help make this market efficient and accountable.