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With all these smart people reading Hacker News, why is the the top comment so negative. This is a legitimately doable thing. The vast majority of us on here a
by isthispermanent 7y ago
With all these smart people reading Hacker News, why is the the top comment so negative. This is a legitimately doable thing.
The vast majority of us on here are some type of engineer. We can answer the question of "How do we efficiently plant 1bil hectare of trees within 5 years?"
Yes, we need to do other things too. But if we wait for some panacea plan to emerge it will be too late. Just do it.
Just imagine if we accomplished this within 5 years. How glad would we be in 30 years once they really started to mature? Let's be good to future us.
- thinkingemote 7y ago> engineer. nature can plant trees instead. Trees, if left alone for a couple of years will naturally reproduce and plant themselves. The key bit is leaving the space alone. It is not something that really needs engineering on the whole. There is a small amount of places where trees would not be able to colonise if left alone - and we need to use the science of Ecology to examine why. it's here where geotechnology can come into play, but for the vast vast majority of the billions needed, we just need to leave alone . Now, saying that, there is a great benefit in getting children interested in nature and planting trees and so we shouldn't stop planting efforts for that sake. But there is a deeply troubling idea that we can engineer nature to save nature when it's nature that can save itself and us.