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nationalforests.org does reforesting of recently burned forests which are probably burning more frequently due to climate change. I don't think replacing forest
by guelo 7y ago
nationalforests.org does reforesting of recently burned forests which are probably burning more frequently due to climate change. I don't think replacing forests that were alive when you were born should count as offsetting your personal CO2 emissions, if the idea is to have an actual effect it has to be new trees in new forests.
- sokoloff 7y agoIf it's a tree/forest that wouldn't have otherwise existed but for your donation/their action, I think it should count. Whether it's at a lat/long that previously held a tree or not is largely irrelevant when considering whether your action was helpful or neutral.
- exhilaration 7y agoOn a related note, today's New York Times has an article about the recent fires in California. Near the end the author states that the 2018 Camp Fire released ...an estimated 3.6 million metric tons of greenhouse gases that, as seems to happen at least once every fire season lately, was more than enough to obliterate the progress made by all of California’s climate-change policies in a typical year. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/31/magazine/paradise-camp-fire-california.html?action=click&module=Editors%20Picks&pgtype=Homepage https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/31/magazine/para...
- lostlogin 7y agoI’d assume that the following spring and for the next year or 3, there would be a huge growth increase in the area due to ash, light and space.