There's a number of really obvious things for Australia to do. Like not voting in a prime minister who literally brought a lump of coal into parliament and told

There's a number of really obvious things for Australia to do. Like not voting in a prime minister who literally brought a lump of coal into parliament and told everyone that it represents the future[1]. We're ideally located for renewable power, we have an abundance of uranium for nuclear. And yet we're one of the worst polluters per capita in the world. But my comment wasn't about Australia specifically. It was about the general notion which has spread, that planting a bunch of trees will make a meaningful dent on climate change. It won't. It takes 10 minutes and the back of one envelope to do the math to understand that it won't. If you do the math, you'll find that every person on earth must plant 20 trees each year to offset their average Co2 emissions for that year alone, nothing to speak of the 5b people * 100 years debt we must repay to wind back atmospheric Co2. And once fully grown those trees need to be cut down and buried deep underground to contain their carbon content from returning to the cycle. We must focus our effort towards effective solutions because focusing it on ineffective ones is worse than doing nothing. Afforestation is not an effective solution. I'm not against afforestation, but at this point we need to run the numbers to figure out whether it makes things better or worse given that rising temperatures mean an increasing number of wildfires that can't be stopped. Wildfires that dump 6 months of an entire nation's Co2 output into the air in the span of a few days. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/global/video/2017/feb/09/scott-morrison-brings-a-chunk-of-coal-into-parliament-video https://www.theguardian.com/global/video/2017/feb/09/scott-m...