It would be nearly impossible to plant enough trees to compensate for the climate impact of burning through the world’s fossil fuel reserves. Offsetting the estimated 182 billion tonnes of carbon held in the reserves of the world’s largest fossil fuel companies would require covering more land with trees than the entirety of North and Central America.
“There simply isn’t enough land available for the level of afforestation that would be needed to offset fossil fuel-related emissions,”
Me too. And as I get older and older the more I like to see my leafy friends growing to the point I get to sit in the shade of one of them in a hot summer day as I listen to the birds chirping up there. There is no feeling like knowing I had some part in creating that moment. That makes me feel not that I created that moment, because I didn’t, that was was the sun and the rain, and all the worms and microbes and bacteria all the way. I just played a tiny part in it and that makes me feel one with everything in that moment.