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

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Bofferbrauer2 said:

TheLegendaryWolf said:

But some change is better than no change or am I wrong? This mentality of it's either all or nothing isn't just in politics anymore huh, wish that way of thinking would disappear already.

The problem is the same as with the idea from conservatives to plant trees to absorb the CO2.

As I calculated before in this thread you would need to plant 2-3 billion trees per year just to absorb the current production rates - and keep in mind they often only want to plant hundreds of thousands, so just less than 1% of what would be needed in a normal year.

Such half-assed actions may buy you a handful years if you're very lucky, but won't be enough to change course. At. All. It just kicks the can slightly forward.

China has reportedly planted 66~ Billion trees since 1978.
66 billion trees.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02789-w

But then we need to account for the 3-7 Billion tree's we chop down every year for farmland or paper or other uses.