Climate change isn’t my favorite area of discussion but I saw this BBC report that seemed encouraging. While I am not for cutting energy production I am defiantly for preserving forest and the world getting greener in terms of trees, plants, etc.
So in the report it states that since the year 2000 that the world has grown forest the equivalent to the size of France. And with it the restored forests have the potential to soak up the equivalent of 5.9 gigatonnes (Gt) of carbon dioxide - more than the annual emissions of the US, according to conservation groups.
If this is true and I would imagine the study is in the ballpark with its stats, are the even anything remotely better to do to lowering carbon than planting producing more forests and preventing the destruction of forests? That seems like a pretty big number since America is no 2 in carbon emission a forest the France negates that. I haven’t seen anything more cost effective and even more effective period at cutting carbon than this. I have seen in the past were people have brought up planting trees being scoffed at, but this looks promising. And who wouldn’t want a more greener world.
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Plant a tree or destroy the economy. Wait a second that’s a tough one 
Doesn’t matter what we do. Didn’t aoc say we would all be dead in 8 or 9 more years? 
That’s what happens when you elect your leaders from the local bar.
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A mediocre bar tender at that.
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Is it outpacing deforestation?
and France lost about 1/2 their grape harvest to a late frost this year. How can that be.
50 years of failed climate predictions…
But hey, I like tree’s…
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I like the tree idea to compared to the green new deal or the end of the west as I refer to it.
I love the climate/eco experts that decided that plastic bags were a better choice than pines that mature every 25 years to make brown paper bags. The landfills greatly appreciate that wisdom.
NJBob
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Nothing wrong with planting trees.
I planted a Northern Red Oak (NJ state tree) in my backyard last year.
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DMK
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This is a classic example of putting the emotional cart before the horse.
And people wonder why those of us who’ve trusted the “science” before don’t trust it now.
As am I. This is tangible and produces results.
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https://www.nationalgeographic.org/media/sustainable-shoppingwhich-bag-best/
Interesting article. Makes it pretty much a toss-up. However the environmental impact is huge in some areas. When they outlawed plastic bags in California I read that the San Francisco Bay was getting depostis of 1 million bags per year. And that many plastic bags were killing large numbers of birds.
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If we switched to regenerative agriculture we could capture one hundred percent of the carbon we release now, by simply rebuilding all the soil we have depleted through chemical farming practices.
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They are quiet a few new bio engineering projects being tested. I am interested in the study were they are modifying hybrid seeds in order to grow a tree that consume 10x the amount of carbon that the same standard variant of the tree captures.
I haven’t even heard of that one. Something interesting to look up! 
conan
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And some day that with any luck young tree will become what it inspired to be.

NJBob
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That’s very nice!
The other alternative is that it out lives my suburban neighborhood and 300 years from now it will still be here when all else around it is gone.
Those are mutually exclusive?
Save the environment or destroy the economy.
Save the economy or destroy the environment.
People think those are the only two choices?
conan
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I should have put a claimer on it, It’s picture I have taken from internet. Last time I built oak cabinets was 30 years ago.
As for everything around it being gone…highly unlikely unless we destroy ourselves. And thous the tree falls and no one hears it. 