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Has anyone done the calculation about how much landmass with trees it would take to reverse the CO2 pollution in a reasonable time frame (<100 yrs? <50 yrs?)? I
by dclusin 7y ago
Has anyone done the calculation about how much landmass with trees it would take to reverse the CO2 pollution in a reasonable time frame (<100 yrs? <50 yrs?)? It seems like the square mileage would probably be quite large and possibly encroach on land that we need to devote farming to feed the growing population. This is entirely baseless speculation, I haven't done much research into this.
- avip 7y agoYes. Many people had done so. This is covered in details in https://www.drawdown.org/solutions/land-use/afforestation https://www.drawdown.org/solutions/land-use/afforestation https://e360.yale.edu/digest/planting-1-2-trillion-trees-could-cancel-out-a-decade-of-co2-emissions-scientists-find https://e360.yale.edu/digest/planting-1-2-trillion-trees-cou... https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6448/76 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6448/76 and in many similar research papers. [edit: formatting]