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More greenwashing so uninformed consumers can feel good about their purchases. It takes 20 to 30 years for a tree to become a significant carbon absorber. The only thing that can save us, if we can be saved, is to stop burning oil. Oil will be economically impossible to extract soon anyhow, costing more energy than can be retrieved. End of game, and end of building renewables, too. We need to stop now. And a baby tree doesn't support the wild things that depend on them, as the 6th Extinction rolls out. Screw Benioff and his ilk.

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I’m so absolutely fucking sick of billionaires and their bullshit. And for that matter, most millionaires too.

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Great research, thank you! There is so much wrong with the schemes of these billionaires, not to mention the carbon emissions of the 1% truly damaging the planet. These tree-planting schemes have been debunked many times by serious researchers. Yes you can stick a tree in the ground but you cannot create a forest by human actions. Is there enough ground water or rainfall to maintain any afforestation effort? Watch how well trees sequester carbon in all the ongoing wildfires! We don’t need no eco-philantropism!

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