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The largest CO2 producer is China, so even if the US went completely carbon neutral, at best, we would hardly put a dent the CO2 levels. So why not advocate for more trees instead, which consume CO2? Instead, all we hear is that we need to ban cars, burgers, transatlantic flight, and collect trillions more in taxes. It sounds more like a giant scam to me.
There's no money in planting trees,if there was, Arbor day would be a big deal. You answered own question mentioning trillions in taxes to be made.with the passing of the collection plate at the new religion , Climate Change .
It is not possible to plant a sufficient number of trees to soak up all the CO2. You can easily run the numbers to see this but one thing to realize is that the the carboniferous epoch, which is when carbon that became fossil fuel was sequestered, lasted about 60 million years. We are emptying it in a span of a couple of hundred years. There is way more carbon in fossil fuel than can go into trees.
It is not possible to plant a sufficient number of trees to soak up all the CO2. You can easily run the numbers to see this but one thing to realize is that the the carboniferous epoch, which is when carbon that became fossil fuel was sequestered, lasted about 60 million years. We are emptying it in a span of a couple of hundred years. There is way more carbon in fossil fuel than can go into trees.
What TwobyFour said. Environmentalists are all for people planting more trees and there's been any number of studies done in this regard. Unfortunately, the studies show that there's simply not enough arable land left to plant all the millions of trees that would be required. I've been planting all the trees I possibly can all over the property I live on, but I do this out of my love for trees, not because I expect trees to solve the climate crisis.
This is where I wish we had those Star Trek replicators. Imagine the amount of trees we could do and potentially with no money other than the research and development fees.
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