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Environment & Energy

MrWowWow

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1. Tree Planting is Hippy Hopelessness

Reply to nitpicked (Original post)

Sun Nov 17, 2024, 12:02 AM

Nov 17

The planet is literally on fire. It's climate is collapsing, and tree planting is suggested? Not a chance of succeeding. Geologic time has contracted to human time. The time to have planted trees to trap carbon was over 50 yes ago. It is not a viable solution to climate change abatement nor its remediation.

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