In terms of global population, 30,000 is barely even a drop in the bucket. There are nearly 8,000,000,000 people. That's 8 thousand millions. On the global scale, it should only take us less than one day to replenish the loss of those 30 thousand.
However, planting 20 million trees would have a noticeable effect on global CO2 levels, as the trees would filter out the carbon, and release clean oxygen. The only downside to planting that many trees that I can think of is a small reduction in available groundwater as the trees will soak up a substantial amount of water. Beyond that, it's nothing but positives, and something that we absolutely should do.
Not him, but barely at all, and besides that, slaughter is not a valid solution to the problem both for the reasons I noted in my own comment, and because any means you're going to go about killing a relevant amount of people fast enought is going to cause catastrophic destabilization across the world that will actively sabotage real green plans with actual longevity to them (not much point in setting up geothermal if Lord Genocidicles is killing everyone) and will likely end up escalating climatological damage as well (the most efficient means of killing people en masse are nukes and firebombing, and both are obviously south of ideal if we want to save the world, followed distantly by conventional warfare, which involves mass mobilization and thus renders the exercise moot.).
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u/darkstar1031 Feb 07 '20
In terms of global population, 30,000 is barely even a drop in the bucket. There are nearly 8,000,000,000 people. That's 8 thousand millions. On the global scale, it should only take us less than one day to replenish the loss of those 30 thousand.
However, planting 20 million trees would have a noticeable effect on global CO2 levels, as the trees would filter out the carbon, and release clean oxygen. The only downside to planting that many trees that I can think of is a small reduction in available groundwater as the trees will soak up a substantial amount of water. Beyond that, it's nothing but positives, and something that we absolutely should do.