To be specific, growing the types of trees we would want for such a thing in such an amount that it would deal with the problems we have, assuming we stop growth of CO2 and assuming we stop burning the Amazon, would take around a hundred years.
“It could take more than a hundred years to add enough mature forest to get sufficient levels of carbon reduction. Meanwhile 40 billion tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) from burning fossil fuels are being added to the atmosphere every year, said Glen Peters, research director at Norway’s Center for International Climate Research.”
And need an area the size of the United States. I wasn’t joking about a second Amazon.
If you want to buy the land to plant a second Amazon, be my guest. And breathing does the exact opposite of what we want.
I’d rather fill land with trees than with radioactive wastes.
You need a lot, lot more trees. Like several orders of magnitude. And growing trees takes longer than even building a nuclear power plant.
To be specific, growing the types of trees we would want for such a thing in such an amount that it would deal with the problems we have, assuming we stop growth of CO2 and assuming we stop burning the Amazon, would take around a hundred years.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/how-to-erase-100-years-carbon-emissions-plant-trees
“It could take more than a hundred years to add enough mature forest to get sufficient levels of carbon reduction. Meanwhile 40 billion tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) from burning fossil fuels are being added to the atmosphere every year, said Glen Peters, research director at Norway’s Center for International Climate Research.”
And need an area the size of the United States. I wasn’t joking about a second Amazon.
I’d rather this as well, but we don’t have that many choices. The slower we act and the more we let perfect be the enemy of good, the more people die.