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

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Pemalite said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

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

A very interesting approach. But I wonder how many survived in that arid environment - and what the consequences would be if there were to be a fire in those plantations. Like the paper says, planting herbs, grasses and bushes would probably have been better for that region's climate.