Australia’s top climate scientist says “we are already deep into the trajectory towards collapse” of civilisation

[Eagle367]

Ka-pi96 said:

Eagle367 said:

Not at all actually. Trees are much better than humans at doing it and there seems to be no will to plant a whole hell of a lot of trees. In fact I think we cut down more trees than plant so we are sabotaging that effort as well. For short term profits of a few oligarchs, the world is being screwed over.

Yeah, that's what I mean. Convincing people to stop cutting down trees and start planting them instead just isn't going to happen on a wide enough scale to be successful.

So why not come up with another solution that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere instead. Another issue is the depletion of the ozone layer, with certain gases/chemicals interacting with the O3 and altering it (I believe to O2 + H2O?). So is there not something similar that could be used to break up CO2? I know CO2 is a more stable compound than O3 and thus less likely to interact with other gasses/chemicals, but it's not outside the realms of possibility, right?

That just doesn't exist and is more unlikely than trees to happen. If a simple solution like planting more trees doesn't happen, finding a new way and spending all that money on research and development and implementation will not happen at all either.