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So, to plant this many trees, you need Gene modification. The tree sapplings have to be toxic to sheep, heat & dry resistant, and they need to be non harvest ab
by Haga 7y ago
So, to plant this many trees, you need Gene modification. The tree sapplings have to be toxic to sheep, heat & dry resistant, and they need to be non harvest able. You need to engieer a plant that is economically uninteresting for humans. Then distribute it via drones to the post human desolation.
- lvs 7y agoYou can't engineer anything to be immune to exploitation except for laws. Genetic modification is absolutely the wrong message to send for this purpose anyway, if you want to get it done fast. We only have a decade or two in which to do this. We go to war with the trees we have. Genetic modification for this purpose will make clonal populations that are more susceptible to disease, requires much more research and regulation, and makes many more problems than it solves. Planting ecologically native trees back into their native land is the best way to minimize unintended consequences and just get this done.
- Haga 7y agoBad news the native lands are gone. Gone is the little layer of topsoil, gone the biome. And your laws fix it only where poverty is not so bad it constantly subverts all laws. In other words your approach is a reality blind first world approach, destined to fail the moment it runs out of money support fashion and sb pulls the ic-plug on the project. Mine is about rolling with the punshes, fast forwarding inevitable evolution. Bamboo comes to mind. Now that is a forrest which will survive us.