Yes! And you can do so at the tune of $0.10 a tree. To offset your CO2 emissions, you need to spend $15/person/year (if you're an American resident). I wrote a blog post about it here: https://automicrofarm.com/blog/2019/03/solving-climate-chang...
Planting 1.2T Trees Could Cancel Out a Decade of CO2 Emissions
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#192Re: Planting 1.2T Trees Could Cancel Out a Decade of CO2 Emissions
#193How many trees has been removed in total by deforestation?
Planting trees is a good thing, but at the same time there is deforestation. The deforestation must also stop.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34134366 Earth's trees number 'three trillion'
"Scientific research has shown that there were once six trillion trees on our planet, and now there are around three trillion left.[1] Human activity was the main driving force for this decrease and humans can, therefore, be the main driving force in increasing it again!" source: Trillion Trees Three major international conservation organizations – the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), the World Wide Fund for Nature - UK (WWF-UK) and BirdLife International (BLI)
We probably also need to remake the economic system what parameters it optimise's for, so that it does not focus on exponential economic output growth as that will drive exponential energy consumption. Reasoning, the planet is already literally on fire due to global warming, why put more fuel on the fire?
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#194Yes! And you can do so at the tune of $0.10 a tree. To offset your CO2 emissions, you need to spend $15/person/year (if you're an American resident). I wrote a blog post about it here: https://automicrofarm.com/blog/2019/03/solving-climate-chang...
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#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here’s a source from Nasa: https://climate.nasa.gov/news/903/coal-and-gas-are-far-more-... And a quote: “Using historical electricity production data and mortality and emission factors from the peer-reviewed scientific literature, we found that despite the three major nuclear accidents the world has experienced, nuclear power prevented an average of over 1.8 million net deaths worldwide between 1971-2009 (see Fig. 1)…
That's just comparing them with coal to sound great. The three major nuclear accidents do not represent the worst which nuclear plants are capable of. For example we have yet to see what can happen if a nuclear plant is sabotaged - that's not FUD its a real vulnerably of the technology and is a reason why they incur constant exceptional security as well as safety costs. They consume alot of water resource as well, fo…
Normal operation of coal powerplants is more dangerous than the worst accidents we had with nuclear powerplants.
Modern nuclear powerplants are much safer than these that had accidents.
Yes you have to include the possibility of new accidents - being sabotaged or not. But that possibility needs to be weighed with the probability of it. And it's very low.
Meanwhile we completely ignore the 100% sure deaths and radiation caused by coal powerplants. Because we're used to it.
BTW sabotaging hydro powerplants can kill hundreds of thousands of people at once. And it's much easier than sabotaging a nuclear powerplant. Get one diver with a swimsuit and give him some TNT.
Somehow I haven't seen this used as a counterargument to renewable energy :)
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#196https://www.trilliontreecampaign.org/ https://onetreeplanted.org/ anyone got any other suggestions for organizations to donate to to get trees planted fast ? Because I love trees regardless of whether they going to help save our home planet
Trees For the Future
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#197So humans are pumping, each year, 100 Billion trees worth of CO2
100 Billion trees.
Holy Crap.
So if every household in the UK planted a tree in their (often non existent) garden, that would be about 22 Million trees - or about 2 hours worth.
Holy fucking crap. that's a lot of CO2
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cuts into my solar power generation through. So its a trade-off. Interestingly enough, from an energy production perspective the solar panels on the roof result in more reduction in CO2 than the trees do.
So does that mean cut down the forest and put up solar?
Maybe put up solar in places there already isn't forest.
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#199Yes! And you can do so at the tune of $0.10 a tree. To offset your CO2 emissions, you need to spend $15/person/year (if you're an American resident). I wrote a blog post about it here: https://automicrofarm.com/blog/2019/03/solving-climate-chang...
Your quoted price for CO2 offsets is about $1/ton (us residents emit a bit more than 15 tons of CO2 per year).
That's about 150x smaller than most other estimates for the cost of carbon sequestration. I think your math is probably wrong.
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#200Yes! And you can do so at the tune of $0.10 a tree. To offset your CO2 emissions, you need to spend $15/person/year (if you're an American resident). I wrote a blog post about it here: https://automicrofarm.com/blog/2019/03/solving-climate-chang...
Your quoted price for CO2 offsets is about $1/ton (us residents emit a bit more than 15 tons of CO2 per year). That's about 150x smaller than most other estimates for the cost of carbon sequestration. I think your math is probably wrong.
Here's my source: https://trees.org/faqs/ (see the answer to question #15).
I think the more important question is, can they scale that cost per tree planted? Hard to say until it's tried.
Also, my calculations assume 22 tons emitted by the average US resident.