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Barbara Bauer's avatar

"How to erase 100 years of carbon emissions? Stop burning fossil fuels – starting now, National Geographic, 4 July 2020." Well, that would not erase emissions, just prevent further ones. Trees, on the other hand, can erase emissions...

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Kathleen McCroskey's avatar

Professor Thomas Crowther was the chief advisor to the UN's Trillion Trees Campaign.

When we stay out of the realm of wishful thinking, we come back to earth and remember that it is the smaller plants that are most ecologically important, and that "grasses hold the planet together." To best benefit the biome, commit to not one more sacrifice zone, anywhere (mines, deforestation and all other human assaults on Nature). Plant and/or encourage native grasses and let natural succession of species build up to whatever climax species will establish there. Just going out and sticking trees into the ground does not a forest make. It's just more typical human manipulation of which we have had too much already.

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