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The basic points remain: 1. planting trees is a relatively cheap, low energy way to absorb lots of carbon. 2. Rich people will do jack about it relative to the immensity of their wealth, because it doesn't buy them status.
Forest management is tricky and expensive; California already fucked it up (with all the best intentions), and now we're stuck fighting massive wildfires. You need to make long-term arrangements en masse for smart forestry with the governments & individuals who own the land.
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It's not money, status, or will; it's that it's fucking hard to do. There are already organizations like https://www.coolearth.org/ working on the problem, but the idea that you can just throw seeds everywhere and call it a day is toddler-level thinking on a very real challenge.
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THIS Largely because of fires, California’s forests emitted MORE carbon than they soaked up between 2001 and 2010, according to a 2015 analysishttps://www.hcn.org/issues/49.21/wildfire-what-fire-researchers-learned-from-northern-california-blazes …
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Citing damage from climate change ain't a great argument against taking action. It's no surprise that burning a mature forests releases CO2. Forestry experts I've spoken to say it's over-management that exacerbates these catastrophic fires. They need to burn naturally.
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