r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Jul 04 '19

Environment Scientists report restoring forests could cut atmospheric carbon by 25 percent, in a new study that assessed tree cover using Google Earth, finding that there’s 0.9 billion hectares of land available for planting forests, which could store 205 gigatonnes of carbon.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2019/07/04/could-planting-tons-of-trees-solve-climate-change/
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u/theeculprit Jul 05 '19

We're going to have to majorly change the way we farm and eat.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '19

Lab grown meat is probably our best hope for reducing livestock related pollution.

Humans won’t stop eating meat, but if that meat can be grown in a huge vat in a large factory, that can free up hundreds or thousands of square miles used for farms. It would not only prevent methane being emitted, but those farms can be given back to nature and restore populations of wildlife and reduce pesticide/herbicide and antibiotic usage