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

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Post by jwr » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 9:39 PM UTC

krageon wrote: post #102

jwr wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The cool thing is that you can order your own dense, self-sustaining forest from https://www.afforestt.com — and it doesn't have to be big (100 square meters), and it doesn't take a hundred years, either.

100 square meters is very, very big unless you are almost unthinkably wealthy. Or at least it is in my neck of the woods.

10 meters by 10 meters is very, very big?

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

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Post by kwhitefoot » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 9:41 PM UTC

krageon wrote: post #102

jwr wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The cool thing is that you can order your own dense, self-sustaining forest from https://www.afforestt.com — and it doesn't have to be big (100 square meters), and it doesn't take a hundred years, either.

100 square meters is very, very big unless you are almost unthinkably wealthy. Or at least it is in my neck of the woods.

100 m2 is only a square about 33 feet on a side. Big if you live in a high rise in a city but you don't need to be unthinkably wealthy in any area that has woods. The plot of land that my house sits on is 800 m2 and I am most certainly not wealthy, let alone unthinkably so.

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

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Post by your-nanny » Sat, Jul 06, 2019, 12:15 PM UTC

your-nanny wrote: post #36

I wonder about growing trees in regions losing permafrost from GW

actually it may be the case that the soil is too poor, or the long winter nights and too short days is too inhibitive.

I know that efforts to reforest Iceland have not been very successful.

even if it worked, could be too slow