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How can trees help in the fight against climate change? Dig into the efforts to rebuild damaged ecosystems and reduce carbon emissions.
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Today humanity produces more than 1,400 tons of carbon every minute. To combat climate change, we need to reduce fossil fuel emissions, and draw down excess CO2 to restore the balance of greenhouse gases. Like all plants, trees consume atmospheric carbon through photosynthesis. So what can trees do to help in this fight? Jean-François Bastin digs into the efforts to restore depleted ecosystems.
Lesson by Jean-François Bastin, directed by Lobster Studio.
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Always plant trees that are native in the area❤
If there were 1 trillion more trees, then I think the planet would almost be a forest
Every in summer, this video turns into trends
Cloning vats sure working triedlessly.
Tree is no longer a viable way to reverse climate change
Egypt is planting the desert
What about methane produced by animal cultivation produced for human consumption? Methane is 20 times more harmful then CO2.
I have 12 trees in my garden. Would plant more if I had more space!
Trees are wonderful and we should truly love them. But they are not a remedy to our man-made situation. Trees store carbon, they do not eliminate it and they store it in form of themselves, as their tissues grow and consume carbon to do so. Yet, once they die, our beloved decomposers, such as mushrooms, will return that carbon back. Of course that is desired, as the carbon must cycle, so that all may partake in it. However it tells us of the problem clearly. The carbon will not go away. In our greed, though it was understandable at the time, we have released carbon that has long remained dormant in the ground. From oil, to coal, they were remains of animals and plants that were not decomposed, for at the time, the decomposers lacked the ability (mushrooms could not decompose lignin) or could not access them. Now we release them back into the atmosphere, where they have no right to be, not if we want to maintain the delicate balance that governs all life and death. That is not even to say that vast majority of carbon that a tree stores is actually stored within the walls and tendrils of their mycorrhizal symbiont, their mushroom friend beneath the ground. There are so many issues we need to tackle here and admit that we are dealing with higher powers. Not even trees are an answer to every carbon problem. Indeed, planting trees in a grassland might as well damage the established ecosystems (meadows, wild grasslands) that hold just as much carbon as forests. Often do we end up thinking about solving an issue of degrading biosphere, by creating arboreal monocultures that might just end up being invasive and destructive in their own right.
EDIT: To add to the apparent wall I created – in my homeland, Slovenia, the forest coverage during, or rather just after, the communist era of Yugoslavia, during which Slovenia supported nigh everything industrial and agricultural as the powerhouse of Yugoslavia, was mere 35%. By the time I was visiting elementary school in 2000s-2010s, the forest coverage was 66%, without any major human intervention. In a few decades, the forests recovered immensely and I am proud to say that wherever you go in this little Alpine country, you will be met with seas of (semi)wild forests, some even untouched by humans ever. Healthy forests will restore themselves.
First make and change my furniture than you can talk about tree and environmental pollution. So no one is ready to leave own interests and pretend to be concerned.
Humans often forget that they're part of nature too.
As if we know already, nowadays earth has to deal with a CO2 drought. That's killing for all the plants. If the CO2 degree gets lower we have to face a totall dy out of the plants. The degree has to double at least, maybe triple.
The temperature will raise 2° C. And that's not a problem! The earth is just, since late 1800, coming out of a small ice-age. The temperature hás to raise.
But thát is a unconvenient truth….
Somehow fails to make clear that trees “.sequestering” carbon from the atmosphere are not doing this as some kind of public service….they need it to live and grow. All,plants do; carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a prerequisite of a greener world, not its death knell. Loss of carbon in the environment would be our real death knell. A world without plants. Remember that the planet is subject to intermittent glacial periods in which great ice packs form at both poles, and then melt back. There used to be trees and animals in Antarctica a million years ago. Conversely, in the very recent(geological) past all of Britain north of the Thames, all of Ireland and much of Northern Europe were under great ice sheets as recently as 20000 years ago. So it may be that a hotter world is the normal world, and what we have now is the recurring aberration correcting itself.
If there’s a trillion more trees? There’s be lots of greedy people who want to log 🪵 them and want to get rich and they will also try to get the give approval of the government (mostly corrupt politicians ) making the bill tittle “nations prosperity bill no#14”.
I have planted more than 1000 trees
i have planted 2000 trees
I've planted 1000+ trees 🌳 during covid 19 pendamic from seeds, which have been alive since 4 years.
Higher chance we colonize mars or terraform a fallen earth before we decide to do something like this in solidarity.
I think that all the gov must encourage a plant or a tree to all citizen depending on the size or plot of land they possess. Too many people opts for house or apartment with zero green area ( exception for grass )
Hogwash
But they are cutting more and more tress at such a high rate in the name of "development"
I've probably planted about 200 trees
❤#boycott_paris_olympics
the major question however, what would happen, as a consequence, if there were 1 Trillion more trees, still remains unanswered.
We need a thanos for real
General Sherman is a Sequoia; in California; not tropical but we appreciate where you're going with the intent of the video.
I planted 55 trees last fall.
no one plants more trees than logging companies.
I think it would be better to give someone a potted perennial flower or potted tree than some cut flowers. Nothing is better than plants that will be around; all year round.
The YouTube climate change statement is false. That being said, at least the fearmongering climate narrative is well-supported.
I used plantfortheplanet
I’m honoroured to say l have planted 7 trees a year.I have served our environment well!😊
Uhhh 2024 Gang assemble!!!!
Well Pakistan took initiative to plant 10 billion tree
True question. Why don’t we have a trillion trees?
I hate this tree craze.
I'd rather have a primary production craze.
All autotrophs are great, whatever grows best at any particular location is most beneficial.
It wasn’t natural forces that depleted Mother Nature. If Mother Nature is clearing she always restores herself. Humans deplete
I plant like a one thousen trees from pine or oak seeds in forest near of my village for 10 years and lm proud😅
It would be amazing if these videos were also in Spanish…
Climate change refers to? long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns?
Human activities are not the main driver of what we have termed, climate change.
Recognising that the sun is the main contributor to our temperatures is important.
It has absolutely nothing to do with the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.
Sun storms are correlative with the current causes of our temperature fluctuations.
The 'deserts' and 'sea levels' however, 'they' indeed have been created, by mankind.
Jean-François Bastin, interesting question "What if there were 1 trillion more trees?"
Understandably, just how many trees do you think they are currently cutting down?
So you know, 'People cut down 15 billion trees each year, on one global tree count'.
United, the deforestation, estimated 46% since the beginning of human civilization.
So his question, is to more than double the just over 400 billion trees on the planet.
(:It would be 1.4 Trillion trees, keep in mind 800 billion estimated, before mankind;)
It would be important to plant different species of trees for biodiversity.
TLDR: extra wood
It is NEVER too late to plant trees!
The best time is NOW!
I’m proud to say I am a tree
HEMP is that plant. We can make so much stuff including homes using hempCrete. Save the trees.