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The amount of fuel used by transporting 10,000 seedlings is easily sequestered by just one of them growing.

• ajuc 4y ago
  But it was growing already. The bottleneck is land allocated for trees, not the tree-planting procedure (in fact it's automatic once you have some trees in vicinity).
  • quixoticelixer- 4y ago
    No, you get trees for planting from a nursery, not from the wild. And tree planting is not "automatic"
    • ajuc 4y ago
      Are you sure? A forest grew on my grandpa's field automatically about 15 years after he stopped using it (mostly as a cow pasture). Nobody planted anything, we just left it be. In 2008 this was a grass field, we made campfires there. Now it's a forest: https://goo.gl/maps/rSeprtz7orYAwVPY8 https://goo.gl/maps/rSeprtz7orYAwVPY8 In fact if you don't mow a lawn for a few months saplings start appearing :) Forests are perfectly good at spreading by themselves, they evolved for millions of years to do that. If you want more trees you just need to let them grow.