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It is crazy to think, with everything at our disposal, that this is the best we can do. But as beautiful as it is, this world is one fucked up place LOL.
"Compiled by the Crowther Lab at ETH University in Zurich, and published Thursday in the journal Science, the study is the first undertaken to map the areas where trees can flourish despite rising temperatures, and calculate how much carbon they could store through photosynthesis. It concludes that a global reforestation effort on up to 6.9 million square miles of land not currently utilized could produce forests capable of storing about 205 tonnes of carbon, which is roughly two-thirds of the excess carbon human beings have added to the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution.
Because global temperatures have risen by nearly 1.8°F since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, dense equatorial forests have become less optimal for growing trees, Crowther said, while areas once too cold for tree growth have become viable. The problem is that new forests don’t naturally spring up fast enough to compensate for the habitat lost to climate change. With an eye toward speeding the process along, Crowther’s study identifies the available land where trees can now flourish. In the United States, for instance, new forest could be planted over approximately 400,000 square miles. The catch, however, is that even if a massive effort were undertaken immediately, it would take between 40 and 100 years to realize peak carbon intake.
it is, by far, the biggest solution that we’ve got,” Crowther said. “There’s no other technology that would be faster.”
The Crowther Lab study also warns that on our current trajectory, the global tree canopy cover could shrink by approximately 550 million acres by 2050, with most of those losses occurring in the tropics.
“There’s about 800 gigatons of carbon in the atmosphere. Before humans were around, it would have been about 500,” he said. “Restoration would take it down to about 600 gigatons, so that would be sort of taking the current 400 ppm of CO2 down to almost 300 ppm, which is right about where we were at the start of the Industrial Revolution, so it’s a pretty big chunk.”
Brazilian photojournalist Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado, who, along with his wife, took it upon himself to oversee the replanting of 2.7 million trees on deforested land in his home country. After founding the Instituto Terra in 1998, Salgado was able to restore the barren, degraded landscape to its natural state.
There’s also Felix Finkbeiner, who at the age of 9 set off on a campaign to plant 1 million trees in Germany to combat climate change. Three years later, with help from other students, he achieved his goal and founded Plant-for-the-Planet, a group that now aims to plant 1 trillion trees globally.
Today, Finkbeiner is 19—and Plant-for-the-Planet, the environmental group he founded, together with the UN’s Billion Tree campaign, has planted more than 14 billion trees in more than 130 nations. The group has also pushed the planting goal upward to one trillion trees
Of the 538 species studied, 44% of them have already experienced an extinction in a particular local area. The researchers found that local extinction sites had larger and faster changes in the hottest yearly temperatures than those that did not
I'm sad to say that this video has nothing unexpected. most expected are the plap "Codes of Conduct" --- bah, blab "throughout our supply chain".
It seems that really those after money think morals don't matter nor environmental destruction. They good still make a healthy profit but do it responsibly.
plab?=combination of blab and clap-trap
How does it profit a man to gain the world and lose it's soul?
Hybrid seeds sell for 160,000 (?) Euros a kilo (Isralie company) and
1 Euro to Indian contract farmer who employ children and pay worker less than the minimum wage
-these may not be directly comparable as the Isralie number might be for new hybrids
Anyone who has any common sense knows what comes out of a tailpipe of a automobile we can't breath it, and what we see pouring out of a Coal power plants smoke stack can't breath it. When you multiply that by millions eventually its going to overcome what the planet is able to handle and ruin what we have.
The paradox is as we increase our intelligence and technology can we avoid destroying ourselves. One way or another earth will survive even if we don't.
