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> To survive as society, we need lots of trees growing as fast as possible to fixate CO2 from the air and clean our mess. Unless you're going to then burry all
by concordDance 4y ago
> To survive as society, we need lots of trees growing as fast as possible to fixate CO2 from the air and clean our mess.
Unless you're going to then burry all the wood that won't come close to enough. The mass of carbon in oil and in the air is far too much to make up with tree planting.
Also, society can definitely survive a couple of degrees of heating. Though it might not be that pleasant for many.
- pvaldes 4y agoDo you mean buried, like the tree roots do? then half of this biomass is yet buried so we don't need to. "Some help" is better than "no help at all", and we need a lot of help currently so, what If --we try-- at least?. We could buy some very precious time. If all that we need is to eliminate some old dams, this is a solution that we can afford. > Society can definitely survive a couple of degrees of heating We will know the answer to this question in a few years.
- concordDance 4y agoIt's a matter of efficiency. What is the best use of man hours and land? I suspect planting trees will very rarely be the answer (judging by some back of the envelope calculations), while making low regulation nuclear power plants or researching energy storage mechanisms will often be.