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Seems a bit suspicious to me. You can't plant a tree in 5 minutes while making sure that it will actually keep growing.
How were they watered the next week?
Ethipoia, and Africa as a whole, is not Band Aid. Addis Ababa gets more rainfall each year than Washington state.
I'm inclined to disbelieve these numbers unless I see some trustworthy non-govt source. Everyone's quoting the minister.
Not to discourage, but even reforesting entire land that could possibly be covered in forest will not arrest climate change noticeably. The reason is because forest do not change CO2 levels noticeably, in the long run. The reason is because there is roughly constant amount of carbon in Earths biomass. Planting treas only increases the amonut of biomass by a little bit but has no lasting effect of scrubbing CO2 from a…
What does "in the long run" mean? Will it suck up carbon for the first 20 years while the tree is growing? 20 years would of borrowed time would be quite useful.
Not to discourage, but even reforesting entire land that could possibly be covered in forest will not arrest climate change noticeably. The reason is because forest do not change CO2 levels noticeably, in the long run. The reason is because there is roughly constant amount of carbon in Earths biomass. Planting treas only increases the amonut of biomass by a little bit but has no lasting effect of scrubbing CO2 from a…
Carbon sequestration via wood burial[1] [1] https://cbmjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1750-0...
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It would catch fire in the Australian outback. Dry, hot, windy thunderstorms would see to that! We have tonnes of natural wildfires, and some are still started by aboriginal tribes as part of their nomadic way of life and spiritual beliefs. It wouldn't last. Just throw it into the empty mining pits instead.
Dump them in the poles then.
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Ethipoia, and Africa as a whole, is not Band Aid. Addis Ababa gets more rainfall each year than Washington state.
What Band Aid? I'm talking of the mechanics of keeping 350 million trees alive. That takes effort, and a lot more area besides Addis Ababa. I'm inclined to disbelieve these numbers unless I see some trustworthy non-govt source. Everyone's quoting the minister.
> Lyrics of the song included description of the country saying, "where nothing ever grows, no rain or rivers flow..."
Is there any proof or details of how they did this? 350,000,000 is a lot of trees to source, distribute and plant in one day.
It does seem quite a bit, furiouspete talked about jobbing as a student in reforestation in Canada (his shrooms video) and apparently if you are quick you go through 4k a day per person a 12h shift. https://youtu.be/tzHw86XmNgc?t=440
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> I wouldn't say it's that stable or that the rest of Africa is instable, especially compared to Europe. It's just that Europe industrialized earlier and got to reap rewards that can only come from most simple needs being met easily. Europe's industrialization as well as other Western countries heavily depended on the exploitation of third world countries in Asia and Africa, especially after WW2. Sweatshops and slave…
It took suicide-level conditions in places like Foxconn to get us our gadget at Not that I disagree with the rest of the post, but it's time the suicides at Foxconn story dies a fiery death. https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/07/10/apples-c... The juicy quote: At the time of that spate of suicides Foxconn had nearly 1 million workers in its plants. There were up to 14 suicides (it depends whose count you w…
15 per, for men.
Seems a bit suspicious to me. You can't plant a tree in 5 minutes while making sure that it will actually keep growing.
These are likely bareroot "whips" which makes planting a lot more automatable and successful, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfI_T7qG_Ok