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If you look at his further posts, his positions are fabricated worst case scenario. For example he suggests that there is no point in planting trees because you
by wang_li 7y ago
If you look at his further posts, his positions are fabricated worst case scenario. For example he suggests that there is no point in planting trees because you're going to drive there in your SUV and then come home and run your AC. This might be true for some people, but it's not for me as my house doesn't have AC and I don't own an SUV. I car pool or drive a prius to plant trees. Also we're not planting trees in places that are then harvested.
When I see people who are anti-tree planting, I wonder if there is some authoritarian predilections at play and anything that doesn't result in central control or provide some mechanism for rent seeking or corruption is going to get down played.
The reality is that if you go and work with your local land management folks who can give you guidance on the types of trees and where to plant them, then going out and spending a weekend putting fifty trees in the ground, will give you quite a nice reduction for the CO2 emissions necessary to plant them. What's more is trees reproduce on their own. If you get a tree into the ground it will likely produce two additional trees over its lifetime if not more.
- ijpoijpoihpiuoh 7y agoWhere do you go to plant trees such that you can be certain the trees won't just be cut down in a few years, and also don't simply displace other trees that would otherwise grow? Also, do you keep track of the trees to make sure they actually grow? Just planting the seed or even a sapling is far from sufficient to ensure that carbon sequestration occurs. Young trees are food for a variety of animals and insects. Do you know what fraction of the trees you plant actually reach maturity? I've seen estimates that far fewer than one in five do.
- microcolonel 7y ago> Where do you go to plant trees such that you can be certain the trees won't just be cut down in a few years Your own property, literally anywhere trees can survive.
- irrational 7y agoSo... no where? Where I live you either live in an apartment or in a house that is 5 feet away from neighboring houses in all directions. What percentage of the population is rich enough to own empty land that they can plants trees on?
- d3ad1ysp0rk 7y agoA substantial part of Maine's population...?
- ijpoijpoihpiuoh 7y agoFew Americans own enough property to allow them to plant anything like as many trees as are required to offset their carbon emissions.
- Numberwang 7y agoF.ex Scotland, on public land. Next.