To prevent possibly catastrophic climate change we can't just bring C02 emissions to zero - we have to go negative, sucking the CO2 that's already there. The best tech is a billion years old: trees. Massive Reforestation could Slow Global Warming.https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/massive-forest-restoration-could-greatly-slow-global-warming/ …
Fully admitting that this is far afield of any expertise I have, some of the assumptions here seem dubious — for example, would foresting every surface of the planet that could possibly support it really "restore biodiversity"? Is all life really amenable to perfect shade cover?
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(My understanding is that the most biodiverse regions have heavy tree cover. But ought we replace all other habitats & expect global biodiversity to increase? If Bob is the most productive employee at company X, it doesn't follow that all staff should be replaced by Bob clones.)
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But in the last 1000 years or so we deforestated a large part of the world. So we should try to revert that (at least in part).
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I'm fuzzy on why they argue stuff like that when nothing they suggest seems to correlate with rising CO2 levels. I mean, I do like trees.https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/nasa-says-earth-is-greener-than-ever-thanks-to-china-and-india/ …
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Please look up the concept of “other factors”.
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Also not my area of expertise. But I believe rain forests have the largest biodiversity of all biomes, by many orders of magnitude in most cases.
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Your instincts are right on Mason
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Not to mention that while trees are great and all, it is not carbon sequestration. It needs to be put back in the ground where we found it, or at least turned into something useful that won't go straight into the atmosphere after a biological life cycle.
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