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> Plant more trees. Invest in renewables. I do not know how people can be convinced those things will do anything to mitigate the changes we are seeing and wil

• peteradio 3y ago
  Trees give shade, shade reduces energy demand.
• GravityLab 3y ago
  Nah, leave shaming in the era of the Salem witch trials. We don't need that. Here's what we need: - global amount of co2 emissions per year https://www.statista.com/statistics/276629/global-co2-emissi https://www.statista.com/statistics/276629/global-co2-emissi.... - average co2 sequestered per tree - 25-45 kg depending on species (google for estimates) https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2015/03/17/power-one-tree-ve https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2015/03/17/power-one-tree-ve... 37 billion metric tons / 25 kg = ~1.48 trillion Amount of land available for reforestation as of 2019 is enough for 1.2 trillion native saplings. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aax0848 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aax0848 Given the above, we could plant this many trees in a year or two if we really tried. Couple that effort with more renewables, more investment into fusion and co2 sequestration machines, more electric cars, etc, and it's taken care of. I would question the character of any person who wants to be the one doing the shaming or thinking we need shaming for this. This is an engineering problem.
• spandextwins 3y ago
  The carbon credit contingency says otherwise. You can actually get carbon credits by planting trees.