A global reforestation project is how we fix climate change
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Re: A global reforestation project is how we fix climate change
#2No, ending the extraction and burning of fossil fuels is how we fix climate change. Anything else is just buying time.
Re: A global reforestation project is how we fix climate change
#3Gets my vote. I love woodland and can't bear the empty, desolate green spaces that cover most of the UK, and which many British people consider to be 'nature'.
And here's an idea: process the wood into a form that can be used for land reclamation without decomposing, cover said land with topsoil, grow trees on said land. Voila: a buffer against worsening coastal erosion due to sea level rise, that also locks in carbon in terms of the trees used to build the footing, and moreover provides extra land for growing trees and locking in even more carbon.
Re: A global reforestation project is how we fix climate change
#4> It makes very conservative assumptions
Uh huh. Good to know this guy has it all figured out.
Edit: trying to find the most absurd claim in this. I think it has to be the desalinization idea. That we can “just” scale up desalinization at existing marginal costs to 3 TRILLION cubic meters of water. The entire world currently desalinizes less than a billion each year. So that’s at least a 300x increase in water production! And how do we provide the energy to do this? The article hand waves it off as “solar power”. Yeah sure that would be great. Forget the cost of infrastructure or the transportation or the space for the solar power or whatever
Trees are great. By all means, plant trees. But don’t go thinking this poorly reasoned back of the envelope math is going to help.
Re: A global reforestation project is how we fix climate change
#5I'm burnt out or depressed with my current career (or something else), but at this moment I would happily pivot to spending the rest of my life trying to help nature. How could I create a business or venture that allowed people to make a livable wage while also working to create a balanced ecosystem between human and nature?
Re: A global reforestation project is how we fix climate change
#6No, ending the extraction and burning of fossil fuels is how we fix climate change. Anything else is just buying time.
An honest question: if a technological solution were found that both solved climate change and allowed us to continue burning fossil fuels, would you accept it?
Re: A global reforestation project is how we fix climate change
#7Gets my vote. I love woodland and can't bear the empty, desolate green spaces that cover most of the UK, and which many British people consider to be 'nature'. And here's an idea: process the wood into a form that can be used for land reclamation without decomposing, cover said land with topsoil, grow trees on said land. Voila: a buffer against worsening coastal erosion due to sea level rise, that also locks in carbo…
Trees for Life - trying to get the Scottish Highlands back to something approaching their "natural" state:
Re: A global reforestation project is how we fix climate change
#8That only "fixes" climate change as long as the trees continue growing and do not die. When dead, trees release their CO_2 that they've sequestered back into the atmosphere due to decomposition. Therefore, assuming those forests stay around, you've only delayed the problem by sinking a fixed amount of CO_2 away into the living biomass of the trees. The only way to make that a permanent sink would be to biochar the trees as soon as they die, which would be a logistical nightmare.
Negative rant over, it's still not a bad idea for the fact that it'd slow down the worst effects of climate change for a while, buying time for other solutions like renewable energy and whatnot, but it's not a pancea.
Re: A global reforestation project is how we fix climate change
#9No, ending the extraction and burning of fossil fuels is how we fix climate change. Anything else is just buying time.
An honest question: if a technological solution were found that both solved climate change and allowed us to continue burning fossil fuels, would you accept it?
Having your cake and eating it too sounds like a great option. It just doesn’t have any basis in reality.
Re: A global reforestation project is how we fix climate change
#10I'm burnt out or depressed with my current career (or something else), but at this moment I would happily pivot to spending the rest of my life trying to help nature. How could I create a business or venture that allowed people to make a livable wage while also working to create a balanced ecosystem between human and nature?
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