- Photo by Mick Haupt from Pexels Sad to say, the answer to both questions is No. Trees cannot stop climate change alone. Even one trillion trees will hardly make a dent in our emissions, much less reduce those already in the atmosphere. Even worse, our emissions are actually increasing – more people seeking a better lifestyle, more data consumption which uses a surprising amount of energy -more video streaming, more zooming, more online shopping – I won’t even mention Bitcoin , and someone has to make all those EVs, solar panels and wind generators. According to Climatologist Dr Simon Clark 20 million trees removing an estimated one million tons of carbon from the atmosphere over a century, would only remove one thousandth of the billion tons of carbon that we release every single year. We would need to plant a 40 million trees a day, just to cover the daily carbon output of the USA. He also fears that planting trees may delude us into thinking th...
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