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>There's no reason not to plant trees in addition to everything else we'll need to do to fix this problem. Yes, there is. Trees take a up valuable real estat
by fooker 5y ago
>There's no reason not to plant trees in addition to everything else we'll need to do to fix this problem.
Yes, there is.
Trees take a up valuable real estate.
As long as people can do something even remotely profitable with land they own, this can not work.
- jnosCo 5y agoWith carbon credits, planting trees can be a profitable land use.
- schiffern 5y agoTrees are valuable too. The problem is we don't understand and/or appreciate that value. For instance, trees essentially power the entire terrestrial water cycle. Without trees all the water rains out within a few hundred km of the coast. Trees (far moreso than simple evaporation) are responsible for pushing that water back into the air-stream. Isotopic analysis confirms that 80% of the rainfall on land is caused by transpiration, and most of that is trees. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11983 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11983 This explains why deforestation causes desertification. Cut down the trees and you get a continent-wide desert. These dynamics aren't well-captured by the present economic system, which only sees "valuable real estate" being "taken up" by trees.
- lovemenot 5y ago>> Anyone still think it's a good idea to utilize all that "valuable real estate" being "taken up" by trees? As long as plantation owners and/or illegal loggers do, then all your argumentation is moot.
- schiffern 5y agoCorrect, thanks. Incidentally before seeing your post I just edited that part for clarity. Since I already made the edit, I'll leave it as-is.
- xvilka 5y agoJust up the ante for illegal logging and equate it to terrorism. Life sentence for anyone involved. I am sure it will make anyone think twice before doing illegal logging with such punishment.
- BurningFrog 5y agoYes, tree planting for carbon binding absolutely need to be profitable to get real traction!
- gammarator 5y agoThe US government already pays many farmers to plant things other than commodity crops.
- rfrey 5y agoStop subsidizing industry by socializing the cost of carbon and planting trees will be profitable.