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by phatfish 2551 days ago
I read it as it takes 250 millions trees 40 years to remove the carbon emitted by the US in a week. That being they have very little effect overall.
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It isn’t just the trees that matter. It’s the rest of the forest ecosystem around the trees. Reforestation is still a great idea as part of a larger plan to restore the atmosphere to and global temperatures to what they were, but it isn’t a silver bullet. There is not one place in the world where you can plant a bunch of trees and declare mission accomplished, but you’ll want those forests there flourishing and absorbing carbon dioxide when we do neutralize emissions.