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What on earth does reforestation by humans have to do with climate change?
by eloff 7y ago
What on earth does reforestation by humans have to do with climate change?
- King-Aaron 7y agoSigh, clearly nothing if you aren't one of those people the previous comment was referring to
- dvfjsdhgfv 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-North_Shelter_Forest_Program#Relations_to_climate_change https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-North_Shelter_Forest_Pro...
- TeMPOraL 7y ago"You see, Earth is getting greener! Things are getting better! Maybe we don't need to cut down on fossil fuels and wasteful consumption after all!"
- hanniabu 7y agoExactly, this is precisely the kind of stuff I hear. Also not sure why so many downvotes lol, I think many misunderstood what I was saying
- TeMPOraL 7y agoThey must have, yes. You have my upvote, FWIW.
- eloff 7y agoThat does sound like the kind of dumb thing people say (or thing dumb people say - seems equivalent in this case.) But logically the two are completely unconnected. Earth getting greener or browner doesn't say anything about climate change.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoGreener -> more carbon sequestered -> better. It's not that simple in reality, but it's about on the level of an average person's knowledge about the topic.
- eloff 7y agoThat still doesn't say anything about climate change. It's all about rate of change of carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. Greener in terms of forests is a temporary sequestration, greener in terms of farms is a net negative since the carbon is soon returned to the biosphere and we expend a lot of energy in the process. Just to know the earth is getting greener or browner is not enough information to say anything about climate change.
- quickthrower2 7y agoTrees convert the evil gas into the brown solid stuff. When there is less evil gas the world wont get as hot.