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Originally Posted by GGG
More feasible then building solar or wind or even nuclear at the scale necessary or ramping up lithium extraction to the point where you can replace all cars. The scale of this problem is mind boggling.
The cost of such a program seems relatively low. Tree planing programs run as low as 30 cents per tree but even if it was $1 per tree that’s only 1.5 trillion dollars. If you planted this over 10 years that is 150 billion per year. The GDP of the G7 nations is 33 Trillion so for .5% of GDP you could undertake this effort.
The one issue is that it does take 100 years to get to a steady state point but a lot of trees carbon sequestration occurs in its early years of growing. So maybe this only solves 1/4 of the problem.
The top 20 richest people in the world could essentially pay for this program if they wanted to.
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The US federal government owns around 650 million acres of land. All it would have to do is rent out as much of that land for $1 dollar per year to private corporations on the basis that they plant trees and manage the forests in a specific way.
Boom, overnight success.
Tree harvesting is a massively lucrative business if done right. And has the ability to sequester a TON of C02 in a very short time frame.
But how are we going to hate on natural gas that way?
