Show HN: Make continuous reforestation part of your daily workflow

Post by therealdrag0 » Sun, Mar 21, 2021, 10:42 PM UTC

IgorPartola wrote: post #42

ubuwaits wrote: post #37

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Bill Gates wrote about the impact of planting trees recently: > It sounds like a simple fix and it has obvious appeal for all of us who love trees, but its impact on climate change is overblown. Although trees absorb some carbon, they can never take in enough to offset the damage from our modern lifestyle. To absorb the lifetime emissions that will be produced by every American alive today — just 4 per cent of the gl…

Well fuck. Anyone know of a lobby as a service project?

Post by BurningFrog » Sun, Mar 21, 2021, 10:50 PM UTC

protontypes wrote: post #46

vcdimension wrote: post #44

Many of these tree planting schemes are a bit dubious; can you really be sure that they are planting new trees that wouldn't have grown in that area anyway, and will they still be around in 40 years time to make sure the trees grow to maturity and are not cut down and burned? The only tree planting scheme that I really trust is the Green Belt Movement: http://www.greenbeltmovement.org/ started over 40 years ago by Pr…

A lot of work is being done to make reforestation as transparent and sustainable as possible. In itself, it is no problem to record a world coordinate when planting the tree and later see if this tree is still there. The involved organizations are already working with such and similar solutions to avoid misuse. If you want to be 100% sure, you need to do it yourself: buy land, plant trees.

Post by ac29 » Sun, Mar 21, 2021, 10:53 PM UTC

fireeyed wrote: post #53

Someone should work on “YC21 Guilt shedding as a service” These “guilt shedding” projects rarely serve any good purpose. There is no way to track the end result. Same goes for donating wads of money to social justice projects. You still see homeless defecating and shooting needles despite “guilt shedding” by SV denizens. Meanwhile the grifters who run these guilt shedding projects get rich.

Post by boublepop » Sun, Mar 21, 2021, 11:46 PM UTC

BurningFrog wrote: post #93

protontypes wrote: post #46

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A lot of work is being done to make reforestation as transparent and sustainable as possible. In itself, it is no problem to record a world coordinate when planting the tree and later see if this tree is still there. The involved organizations are already working with such and similar solutions to avoid misuse. If you want to be 100% sure, you need to do it yourself: buy land, plant trees.

Yeah, but how do I know 9 other people didn't also pay for it? How do I know it's not replaced by a new tree 30 years from now. And so on.

Post by marcinzm » Mon, Mar 22, 2021, 12:17 AM UTC

missedthecue wrote: post #87

marcinzm wrote: post #33

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Civilization is build around the existing climate and the cost of re-building around a new climate will be very very large. For example, most cities are near bodies of water and rising sea water will threaten them. So we have to either move a lot of cities (to now scarcer land) or build massive walls around them (that need to survive hurricanes in many areas). There's also thing we don't fully control like the ecosys…

"Civilization is build around the existing climate and the cost of re-building around a new climate will be very very large " But the climate will change over decades and centuries. People move, nation's build and rebuild, and crops change over centuries, climate change or not. Think how different the world and human diet was in 1900 compared to today. I think a lot of people look at climate change as a war, where bu…