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0 pointsagumonkey6y ago0 comments

nor the small emission from natural decay of dead wood

That said it could also:

- absorb some heat

- create new wind / rain cycles

- provides a lot of material (construction/furniture) to replace cement and plastics

- kill millions of people of exhaustion from planting that many trees

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m0zg6y ago

Planting is something we know really well how to automate, though. Planting is the most tractable problem in this (hypothetical) solution.

Also, more rain means more clouds, and this is something the current climate models can't really model accurately, believe it or not. There's not even "consensus" on whether clouds are beneficial or detrimental.

agumonkeyOP6y ago

I can certainly understands we have modeling limits

frogpelt6y ago

If each person on the planet would plant 150 trees this year, we would be finished.

agumonkeyOP6y ago

For some reason I pictured people moving fully grown trees .. planting 150 seeds is not a lot indeed.

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0 pointsagumonkey6y ago0 comments

nor the small emission from natural decay of dead wood

That said it could also:

- absorb some heat

- create new wind / rain cycles

- provides a lot of material (construction/furniture) to replace cement and plastics

- kill millions of people of exhaustion from planting that many trees

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m0zg6y ago

Planting is something we know really well how to automate, though. Planting is the most tractable problem in this (hypothetical) solution.

agumonkeyOP6y ago

I can certainly understands we have modeling limits

frogpelt6y ago

If each person on the planet would plant 150 trees this year, we would be finished.

agumonkeyOP6y ago

For some reason I pictured people moving fully grown trees .. planting 150 seeds is not a lot indeed.

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