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by markerz 839 days ago
Similarly, we can't plant enough trees to offset our total carbon emission because we've released SOOO much carbon that was previously just buried underground as oil. We would need to plant more trees than we have ever seen.
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More trees than have ever existed, given we burn both coal (trees) and oil (algae)... and a loooot more oil.