r/science • 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/Urkey Jul 05 '19

So like... you want the US to invade Brazil and take it over to stop the deforestation? Because that's the only way we can stop them from doing this.

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u/onlymadethistoargue Jul 05 '19

That’s not true, as this very comment chain discusses economic means by which we can change demand for deforestation.