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Plant a tree. Today. Before it's too late.

by spandextwins 3y ago

galuggus 3y ago
Do it for free at mptr.ee
- deleted 3y ago
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- codetrotter 3y ago
  https://www.thissongplantstrees.com/ https://www.thissongplantstrees.com/ > You can plant trees for free using Spotify. > We made a second audio clip where all the revenue goes to planting trees > Sounds too good to be true. How does this work? > Everytime you listen to a song on a streaming service it earns a tiny bit of cash for its creator. > We use that money to plant trees. Neat!
  - thehappypm 3y ago
    I can’t put my finger on why but this seems like stealing
    - codetrotter 3y ago
      You probably can’t put your finger on why because it’s not. They are earning royalties for the amount of times people listen to their audio. And use the royalties to pay for trees. If anyone is stealing anything, it’s Spotify. Most artist are paid pennies for their music even when a lot of people listen to it. Spotify is great for consumers, but not so great for most musicians.
olddustytrail 3y ago
We're talking billions of tons of ice. A single tree won't hold that back. Plus, it's Antarctica! The tree will die in that cold!
- 11235813213455 3y ago
  the 1st part of your comment makes me think of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox
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onetimeuse92304 3y ago
Trees do not affect CO2 levels, over long time. The basic reason is explained by why it is also called "carbon cycle". Plants grow, temporarily storing carbon, then die, releasing the carbon back to atmosphere either by burning or by decaying or by being consumed and literally breathed out as CO2 back. Rather than planting a tree, you can actually help the atmosphere more by cutting a tree and building a house out of it and not letting it rot for a really long time. By cutting the tree and building the house, you are sequestering the carbon for probably longer than the tree would live (depending on what would be its future) and also making space for new trees to grow. If you are looking to actually affect the long term outcome, you need to do one of two things: 1) stop emitting CO2 2) sequester the atmospheric CO2 somewher, for a really long time.
- dangles 3y ago
  Where did oil come from?
  - onetimeuse92304 3y ago
    The oil came from small microorganisms that fell out of carbon cycle by getting themselves in places where they could not rot or get burned. The same story is behind coal, except it is not possible to generate any more coal deposits naturally. The reason we have coal is some hundreds of millions of years ago there were huge plants that would topple but there was nothing on Eearth yet that could completely digest plant matter. So the biomass would basically stay where it fell and new plants would grow on top of dead ones. This explains the shape of coal deposits. Some time later I think fungi evolved that could digest cellulose and any plant afterwards would rot rather than get burried. This explains why ALL coal deposits in existence are older than something like 600M years.
    - thfuran 3y ago
      As I understand it, that's no longer the prevailing theory regarding coal.
      - 3y ago
edhelas 3y ago
Again... planting trees is pointless. We need to recover lands and grow forests. Trees are not carbon pumping units, they are part of ecosystem. The moment we will start to understand this, we will make a giant step in the right direction.
- 11235813213455 3y ago
  A tree is a local air conditioning, air purifier, air humidifier, so always better than nothing, it hosts so much life like insects that are vital to other lifeforms and trees indirecly
- spandextwins 3y ago
  Stanford shows otherwise https://earth.stanford.edu/news/growing-carbon-offsets-trees https://earth.stanford.edu/news/growing-carbon-offsets-trees
jraby3 3y ago
I think it’s probably much more effective to stop eating meat. Land is cleared for cattle at an alarming rate and is the main reason for the shrinking size of the Amazon.
- MandieD 3y ago
  Avoiding beef from Brazil would be an easy first step.
immmmmm 3y ago
You certainly want to stop cutting trees. I think it’s 10 million cut each days. Then invest time and money in ecosystem preservation and adaptation. Many scientific reports available, let you google that.

Plant a tree. Today. Before it's too late.

galuggus 3y ago

Do it for free at mptr.ee

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codetrotter 3y ago
https://www.thissongplantstrees.com/ https://www.thissongplantstrees.com/ > You can plant trees for free using Spotify. > We made a second audio clip where all the revenue goes to planting trees > Sounds too good to be true. How does this work? > Everytime you listen to a song on a streaming service it earns a tiny bit of cash for its creator. > We use that money to plant trees. Neat!
- thehappypm 3y ago
  I can’t put my finger on why but this seems like stealing
  - codetrotter 3y ago
    You probably can’t put your finger on why because it’s not. They are earning royalties for the amount of times people listen to their audio. And use the royalties to pay for trees. If anyone is stealing anything, it’s Spotify. Most artist are paid pennies for their music even when a lot of people listen to it. Spotify is great for consumers, but not so great for most musicians.

olddustytrail 3y ago

We're talking billions of tons of ice. A single tree won't hold that back. Plus, it's Antarctica! The tree will die in that cold!

11235813213455 3y ago
the 1st part of your comment makes me think of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox

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onetimeuse92304 3y ago

Trees do not affect CO2 levels, over long time. The basic reason is explained by why it is also called "carbon cycle". Plants grow, temporarily storing carbon, then die, releasing the carbon back to atmosphere either by burning or by decaying or by being consumed and literally breathed out as CO2 back. Rather than planting a tree, you can actually help the atmosphere more by cutting a tree and building a house out of it and not letting it rot for a really long time. By cutting the tree and building the house, you are sequestering the carbon for probably longer than the tree would live (depending on what would be its future) and also making space for new trees to grow. If you are looking to actually affect the long term outcome, you need to do one of two things: 1) stop emitting CO2 2) sequester the atmospheric CO2 somewher, for a really long time.

dangles 3y ago
Where did oil come from?
- onetimeuse92304 3y ago
  The oil came from small microorganisms that fell out of carbon cycle by getting themselves in places where they could not rot or get burned. The same story is behind coal, except it is not possible to generate any more coal deposits naturally. The reason we have coal is some hundreds of millions of years ago there were huge plants that would topple but there was nothing on Eearth yet that could completely digest plant matter. So the biomass would basically stay where it fell and new plants would grow on top of dead ones. This explains the shape of coal deposits. Some time later I think fungi evolved that could digest cellulose and any plant afterwards would rot rather than get burried. This explains why ALL coal deposits in existence are older than something like 600M years.
  - thfuran 3y ago
    As I understand it, that's no longer the prevailing theory regarding coal.
    - 3y ago

edhelas 3y ago

Again... planting trees is pointless. We need to recover lands and grow forests. Trees are not carbon pumping units, they are part of ecosystem. The moment we will start to understand this, we will make a giant step in the right direction.

11235813213455 3y ago
A tree is a local air conditioning, air purifier, air humidifier, so always better than nothing, it hosts so much life like insects that are vital to other lifeforms and trees indirecly
spandextwins 3y ago
Stanford shows otherwise https://earth.stanford.edu/news/growing-carbon-offsets-trees https://earth.stanford.edu/news/growing-carbon-offsets-trees

jraby3 3y ago

I think it’s probably much more effective to stop eating meat. Land is cleared for cattle at an alarming rate and is the main reason for the shrinking size of the Amazon.

MandieD 3y ago
Avoiding beef from Brazil would be an easy first step.

immmmmm 3y ago

You certainly want to stop cutting trees. I think it’s 10 million cut each days. Then invest time and money in ecosystem preservation and adaptation. Many scientific reports available, let you google that.