I would rather them just spend 1.2 billion planting trees. Just plant a shitload of trees, that’s it.
Trees are great. Except they love to burn. Either as a fuel, or as part of the forest fire.
That’s why I hate when the corporations do carbon offseting by planting trees.
Yeah what’s the percentage of all trees burning up? That’s kind of a dumb take.
I mean have you been reading the news lately about the multiple massive wildfires throughout the world?
How efficient at sinking carbon are trees? As in, once the tree decomposes, the carbon gets largely released back into the air.
But yeah, “shitload of trees” + “some way of storing them at end of life that doesn’t result in carbon back into the atmosphere” seems like a pretty solid plan.
Trees are some of the best carbon sinks there are. Far greater than any artificial ones we have so far. Trees last a long time, and when they die you can just plant more.
Doing anything but actually solve the problem. Amazing.
Actually this solves a very important problem. If we stop all pollution and carbon emissions today the earth will still be heated up significantly for the next thousand years or so. Enough that life will be more than uncomfortable, we’ll have massive water shortages, widespread desertification, and wholesale extinctions of many plants and animals.
We need carbon sequestration if we want to control the damage already done.
I would love to see some actual numbers on how much greenhouse gasses we release in the process of carbon sequestration. If we’re using carbon energy sources that emit more than they capture then we’re making the problem worse. I kind of doubt the US is going to use solar, wind, nuclear, and hydro to sequester carbon right now.
By definition it isn’t carbon sequestration if the grams CO2 equivalent (gCO2e) isn’t negative after a full lifecycle study. Lifecycle studies are somewhat contentious as you might imagine since they try to encompass so much in one number, but generally studies agree that the major proposals are strongly negative.
You can read more about that here for a few of the more likely candidates. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_sequestration#Geologic_carbon_sequestration
Neo liberalism is destroying our world and they prefer to spend billions to create more machines and tech stuff than give a step back in economical growth and plant trees. There is no sense at infinite economic growth in a planet with finite resources. There is one thing in nature that follow that same pattern and is called CANCER.
This just in…
GOP leaders have pushed through a measure outlawing all forms of vacuum cleaners.
Or we could stop buying cheap chinese shit and build out bike & public transport infrastructure.
