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Originally Posted by New Era
Because it is impossible. I remember reading an article about this but can't find it right now. IIRC we would have to plant over a trillion and a half trees to counter just the carbon being produced in one year. That doesn't account for the increases or decreasing the built up carbon. Considering there are about 5 trillion trees on the planet, that means we need to plant the equivalent of 25% of existing trees. Also take into consideration the large areas where trees won't grow or can't grow and we're limited in where those trees can grow. So how much land do you think you need to plant and grow 1,500,000,000,000 trees? If IIRC the area was side of Asia, Europe, and Australia combined. We don't have the land to do so without killing off a large percentage of the people on the planet as we would consume pretty much all of our farmlands to plant trees.
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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.