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>Trees are not seen as a solution because they don't represent a market opportunity. You can make millions selling EV's, how are you going to make money with tr
by gruez 2y ago
>Trees are not seen as a solution because they don't represent a market opportunity. You can make millions selling EV's, how are you going to make money with trees?
Given that carbon is emitted continuously, and forests only offset a fixed amount of emissions (they stop sequestering carbon once they're fully grown and reach steady-state), you basically constantly need to be planting trees. That creates an obvious market for tree planting companies.
- pabs3 2y agoThis guy argues that mature forest ecosystems are better carbon sequesters than immature ones or monoculture forests, due to biodiversity, leaf litter, fungi, soil etc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Crowther_(ecologist) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Crowther_(ecologist) https://crowtherlab.com/ https://crowtherlab.com/ https://iview.abc.net.au/show/forest https://iview.abc.net.au/show/forest https://www.memorabletv.com/news/the-forest-trillion-tree-hype/ https://www.memorabletv.com/news/the-forest-trillion-tree-hy...