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Originally Posted by GGG
There was just recently an article that suggested that planting the 1.5 trillion trees required was possible as in there was enough room to plant the trees.
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/amp.theg...nopy-emissions
No farmlands or urban areas are touched although some tree cover is added to grazing lands. |
Whoa, that article says there are only three trillion trees on the planet. That means planting 50% of the trees that already exist on the planet. Yeah, not even remotely possible. Even if you could come up with the money to buy the saplings, where does the labor come from? Do you know how long it would take to plant 1.5 trillion trees? Big question is, where do you come up with 1.5 trillion saplings? Here's a few others that also question the pragmatism behind the study.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cr.../#.XYmD0ihKhPY
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7...climate-change
http://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/...limate-change/
The common thread in these is the original article is a mathematical model to determine the possibility of the concept, but did not take into consideration the actual feasibility of the idea. The potential to plant and then sustain the trees was not considered.
"Converting large areas of natural landscape to biomass plantations threatens these already stressed ecosystems. Converting agricultural land makes it harder to feed the world’s population. Fertilizing tree plantations requires huge inputs of nitrogen fertilizer—which also results in the release of greenhouse gases—and watering them taxes an already water-scarce world."
Interesting article and idea.