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Arctic sea ice / Re: "Smart" and "Stupid" Questions - Feel Free To Ask
« on: June 19, 2019, 08:32:13 PM »QuoteYou don't need trucks to plant trees. They just grow on their own.
At the scale that trees must be planted to make up of years of deforestation, it is simply not true that trucks aren't needed and is just a matter of planting them.
You need to collect and plant seed, nurse them into saplings, then go to correct spots, clean the area, dig, plant them and every so often, specially in the early life of the trees they must be tended. If drought or flood happen they will need help.
This is something that must be done, we must get planting trees at a scale that puts nature to shame. But don't kid yourself. It will be a huge effort and it will require modern technology to make it feasible. Also many species will go extinct as we change habitats to whatever they are now to forests.
It doesn't matter. It needs to be done. Together with zero emissions and CO2 extractions by other methods. More direct forms of geoengineering will be needed too. Fossil fuel interests won. There is no longer time to do this the easy way.
This sounds like monoculture to me, and I'm sure the Irish can explain about monoculture.