• FlexibleToast@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Yeah, like I said, a ridiculous amount of trees according to that calculator. That calculator said I’m in the top 5% and would take just over 200 trees a year. If we make the assumption that all of the top 5% also need 200 trees a year (it’smuch more likely that number sky rockets as the percentage gets lower), that’s 70,000,000,000 trees a year. To put some scale to that it looks like 14m hectares were lost to deforestation in 2010 and from what I see the most generous number is about 900 trees per hectare. That’s 12,600,000,000 trees. Stopping all deforestation won’t even come close to covering 5% of the CO2. Again, trees never will be enough to make up for the CO2 being pumped out of the ground and into the air.

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      6 months ago

      Ok, so you don’t like trees. I get it. I still think they are part of the larger solution. And, what do you like? How are we going to solve this? Cuz, we are going to solve it, dancing joyously all the way.