Sometimes it feels like we are going to find solutions to every modern problem except taking the carbon out of the air.
And then we’ll discover that some of those solutions created some new secret, worse, problem we now have to solve
We have solutions to carbon, it’s just that the people who have the power to utilize those solutions refuse to do it so they can get a bigger number in their bank account.
…and the people keep living unsustainably, bankrolling dodgy corporations, and voting for dodgy politicians, while not taking any responsibility
The solution is called trees (and other plants). We just have to plant them and not burn stuff.
Unfortunately, in many places now, new planted trees don’t survive the multiple disasters coming one after the other: drought, fire, flood, rinse and repeat.
This is is still better than nothing where they can survive, but we passed the point where we can save ourselves by planting trees.
Number one priority should be on stopping burning fossil. We’re getting nowhere close to that. Most countries give themselves pats on the back for adding enough renewable to reduce the % of fossil fuel energy, without actually reducing the absolute number.
and other plants
So what you’re saying is, we need to replace all life in the oceans with invasive toxic GMO algae?
That will not work. Because Forrests only store CO2 but won’t remove it, you have to add more forest areas. Currently the store around 900 gigatons of CO2 and occupy 30% of the land mass. We produce about 33gigatons of CO2 each year (this is just a emission btw the real number through land change etc is higher) which means we would need to plant trees on 1% of earth each year, which is not sustainable for more than 50 years.
It will work. You just ignored the second part, “and not burn stuff”. We need to stop producing, and reforest everything that can be.
That!
Plant trees and other plants that capture carbon and can be turned into charcoal.
Bury the charcoal and remove the carbon from the cycle for a long time.
Rinse and repeat.It will not work because it doesn’t matter if you burn it or not. If you don’t burn it, the CO2 will be released regardless because the wood will decompost in 10-50 years.
No babes, you don’t burn the oil. Yes, dead trees decompose, but that turns into new trees. Increasing the forest lowers the carbon in the atmosphere, full stop.
Which gets us back to my argument that you have to increase the used landmass for forests by 1% per year yeah which means after 50 years the earth is full of forests, which is unsustainable. You are nearly there
Storing carbon is how you remove it from the atmosphere
Yeah it is stored in the living tree the moment the tree dies it will be released back into the atmosphere by decomposing.
Further I already use niced up numbers in favour of trees there because I use forests not trees and forests save half their carbon in the soil
Removing would be that it is removed out of the carbon cycle but that isn’t happening here the carbon cycle storage is just higher.
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