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I Am Concerned About Climate Change

Stop Building a Spaceship to Mars and Just Plant Some Damn Trees
Researchers found that there’s room for an extra 900 million hectares of canopy cover.
Jackie Mogensen, Mother Jones Magazine July 4, 2019

When it comes to climate change research, most studies bear bad news regarding the looming, very real threat of a warming planet and the resulting devastation that it will bring upon the Earth. But a new study, out Thursday in the journal Science, offers a sliver of hope for the world: A group of researchers based in Switzerland, Italy, and France found that expanding forests, which sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, could seriously make up for humans’ toxic carbon emissions.

In 2018, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world’s foremost authority on climate, estimated that we’d need to plant 1 billion hectares of forest by 2050 to keep the globe from warming a full 1.5 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels. (One hectare is about twice the size of a football field.) Not only is that “undoubtedly achievable,” according to the study’s authors, but global tree restoration is “our most effective climate change solution to date.”
How about you not using your computer as much and not driving as much
Lucia · 36-40
@MarmeeMarch Yes but you specifically went after computers which is a terrible idea. Because computers are an effective way of communication - and they are an amazing gateway to dialogue and knowledge. The offer the means to meaning and understanding. That is likely the very last place we ought to save electricity.

Only 2 % of the US homes' electricity bill go in the direction of computers. Most of it go on temperature control.
@Lucia I was just doing using that as an example of coarse computers don't use a lot of electricity
MasterLee · 56-60, M
@MarmeeMarch democratic debates have excessive electricity and flatulence. We should not broadcast them and have huge filters for the gas.
Lucia · 36-40
There are lots of great options to combat it. But as long as the people in power are unwilling nothing will happen.

They are doing nothing but misleading their people with the scientific results in order to eliminate any public demand for action.
badminton · 61-69, MVIP
It makes me glad to see people discussing climate change.

Facts: Climate change is real, it's here, it's man-made. We have to force our politicians to take action. We will need to get out in the streets in huge numbers and exercise our rights to "petition the government for a redress of grievances" as the First Amendment states.

The article above states that planting trees is one of the most effective actions we can take. Let's do it!
eli1601 · 70-79, M
@badminton I drove cross country this summer, Arizona to Connecticut and back. There is no shortage of trees in this country.
Jackaloftheazuresand · 26-30, M
please don't stop space travel, eventually all the trees in the world won't help us. we need to expand to other planets sometime
MasterLee · 56-60, M
@badminton well liberals whine about over population and if we had less liberals we would have less whining.
badminton · 61-69, MVIP
@MasterLee In fighting to protect the Earth we are defending even you. Yes, you are included. I'm not sure if you deserve it, but you're getting protected anyway LOL.
MasterLee · 56-60, M
@badminton except humans do not effect climate change in any significance so I am more concerned with the whining.
abe182 · 46-50, M
OK so chop chop get to it! Who is stopping you?

 
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