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by mhkool 2583 days ago
The easiest way to reduce CO2 is to plant a forest, so look for companies that do this.
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https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1131365880435286016?s...

Those tree planting drone companies probably require software engineering.

I was thinking about this yesterday and came up with this question: How many trees would I have to plant, and how long would they have to live to offset my (average Western European) lifetime CO2 contribution?
and if you fly somewhere to plant it you just added a bunch more
Yeah, but how many?
I don't recall where, but I recently saw something about the net effect on long-run global temperature being muddled if the tree's dark foliage absorbs more heat than baseline for the environment.

I'm not sure if that's just an asterisk indicating that the short-run effect may be a wash, or if it's clear enough to rule out some environments/tree species in favor of other choices.

that is only a temporary buffer
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