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Offsetting global fossil fuel stores by planting trees is impossible (www.newscientist.com)
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It would be nearly impossible to plant enough trees to compensate for the climate impact of burning through the world’s fossil fuel reserves. Offsetting the estimated 182 billion tonnes of carbon held in the reserves of the world’s largest fossil fuel companies would require covering more land with trees than the entirety of North and Central America.

“There simply isn’t enough land available for the level of afforestation that would be needed to offset fossil fuel-related emissions,”

The study: Carbon offsetting of fossil fuel emissions through afforestation is limited by financial viability and spatial requirements

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[–] quetzaldilla@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Planting trees is really fun. I love it.

[–] sanity_is_maddening@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Me too. And as I get older and older the more I like to see my leafy friends growing to the point I get to sit in the shade of one of them in a hot summer day as I listen to the birds chirping up there. There is no feeling like knowing I had some part in creating that moment. That makes me feel not that I created that moment, because I didn't, that was was the sun and the rain, and all the worms and microbes and bacteria all the way. I just played a tiny part in it and that makes me feel one with everything in that moment.

[–] quetzaldilla@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I must have planted about 10,000 trees within the last twelve years I've been living here in the PNW.

I also helped remove hella trash from streams and rivers.

It sounded super tedious when I first signed up to volunteer, but it ended up being like most fun shit I have ever done with my free time.

They let me access areas that are closed to visitors, I've helped with necropsies of dead whales and other wildlife, I've seen baby foxes playing without them realizing I was watching them, I've seen the most beautiful flowers and insects.

Fucking turnt on this shit. I wish I could do it full time, so I'm trying to find a job doing that.

I don't even care what it pays, it makes me happy.

[–] sanity_is_maddening@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, that is the life. 10000 is a great number. I don't think I have reached half of that number yet.

But yeah, all that I have done has been for free as a volunteer. And felt so much more rewarding than anything I've been paid for. My girlfriend has even paid to do volunteering in conservation. So that is going a step further. We now both have this little project where we use the syntropic method to bring life back to this slice of land we bought, where we're also building our home.

Your life sounds wonderful. And I wish there was more of you out there. And I'm always grateful for knowing that there's people like you out there. So, thank you.