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"Planting trees is cheap" is the sort of thing people say when they haven't given any thought to why deforestation has occurred in the first place, who has control over that land and whether/where reforestation has been successful.
If you just want to rag on rich people, try to do it in an intelligent way. There's no status in working on global warming? Have you lost your mind? Look at TED. Look at Davos. Who's Time's Person of the Year?
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You said it right when you said it’s fucking hard to do. And probably much more expensive than the $300bn quoted. Are there 1.2 trillion saplings of the correct species in the proper regions for them to grow, all ready to plant out?
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And that’s not considering the huge variability in planting costs for different sites.
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Safe to say I'm more skeptical that the uber-rich will come together on their own to resolve this. Obviously some will, but when they're fighting other entrenched interests the money tends to cancel out.
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E.g. the Koch's wield government capture level capital. But sure, slowing deforestation is a good thing.
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