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Yes! And you can do so at the tune of $0.10 a tree. To offset your CO2 emissions, you need to spend $15/person/year (if you're an American resident). I wrote a
by ph0rque 7y ago
Yes! And you can do so at the tune of $0.10 a tree. To offset your CO2 emissions, you need to spend $15/person/year (if you're an American resident). I wrote a blog post about it here: https://automicrofarm.com/blog/2019/03/solving-climate-change-with-trees.html https://automicrofarm.com/blog/2019/03/solving-climate-chang...
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- harryh 7y agoYour quoted price for CO2 offsets is about $1/ton (us residents emit a bit more than 15 tons of CO2 per year). That's about 150x smaller than most other estimates for the cost of carbon sequestration. I think your math is probably wrong.
- ph0rque 7y agoHere's my source: https://trees.org/faqs/ https://trees.org/faqs/ (see the answer to question #15). I think the more important question is, can they scale that cost per tree planted? Hard to say until it's tried. Also, my calculations assume 22 tons emitted by the average US resident.
- harryh 7y agoAnother way to know your number is wrong is to consider the fact that the US emits ~5.5 gigatons of CO2 per year. If it cost only $1 a ton to sequester that then the total cost would only be only 5.5 billion dollars a year. That's....not very much at all. Global warming wouldn't be a problem if Jeff Bezos could fix it by himself.
- ph0rque 7y agoFeel free to point out where my math is wrong, or what any of the numbers should be. I show my math work in the blog article I linked to. I would be happy to make any corrections.