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Many more trees could be planted without encroaching on crop land or urban areas

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Re: Many more trees could be planted without encroaching on crop land or urban areas

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Given the right approach, this is also probably the only way to tackle climate change that is self-sustaining. Because trees reproduce. And they constantly search for ways to adapt to their environment in order to survive and reproduce.

Human technology can't do that yet.

Re: Many more trees could be planted without encroaching on crop land or urban areas

#7

That means a global / multinational movement against governments cutting trees (eg for lucrative construction deals) is needed.

Buy a little property and plant some trees, doesnt have to be that expensive. Thats what i did.

Re: Many more trees could be planted without encroaching on crop land or urban areas

#8

That means a global / multinational movement against governments cutting trees (eg for lucrative construction deals) is needed.

Massive reforestation would eventually reduce cost of wood construction, allowing harvesting and replanting to sequester even more carbon.

Re: Many more trees could be planted without encroaching on crop land or urban areas

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Where can one donate to an organization that plants trees?

There are tree planting orgs like https://trees.org/

There are also very effective tree saving charities like "cool earth"

https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/report/cool-earth/

Re: Many more trees could be planted without encroaching on crop land or urban areas

#10
Interesting – we need more of such studies.

Check out Drawdown [0] for other interventions with quantified costs/benefits.

Economists widely agree that carbon pricing is the most effective way to fix climate change [1], and fee-and-dividend implementations are the most viable politically (there's a bill before Congress now [2]).

[0] https://www.drawdown.org/

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/business/economic-science...

[2] https://citizensclimatelobby.org/energy-innovation-and-carbo...

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