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I understand it’s a politics motivated move but regarding the effectivity and climate impact, I argue money spending on planting trees in many places in the wor
by sinuhe69 3y ago
I understand it’s a politics motivated move but regarding the effectivity and climate impact, I argue money spending on planting trees in many places in the world will be a better spend. And significantly cheaper. A tree will absorb from 210 to 300 kg CO2 in 10 years. For 315000 tons, one will need 1.5 millions living trees. Spending 50-100$ per tree (a reasonable cost for a developing country), the total cost would be 75-150 millions dollars only; much cheaper than the 200 millions estimate from the article. And the environment impact will be much bigger, ways beyond capturing CO2 alone (anti-desertification, reducing land-slide, keeping the soil productive for generations and so social coherence and even helping maintain peace etc…)