To survive as society, we need lots of trees growing as fast as possible to fixate CO2 from the air and clean our mess. Ok?
Trees need nitrogen to grow, but this conifer forests lack typically nitrogen so the tree's grow is stunted.
In fact this ecosystems work because there is a major and main external source of nitrogen: The Sea
And more precisely, Salmon migration
The majority of the nitrogen stored in this wild areas came from the salmons. How do we know it? Ecology research.
So, protecting salmon (= removing CO2 from the air) is suddenly a very important issue for us and definitely not a caprice, or something to joke about it.
> To survive as society, we need lots of trees growing as fast as possible to fixate CO2 from the air and clean our mess.
Unless you're going to then burry all the wood that won't come close to enough. The mass of carbon in oil and in the air is far too much to make up with tree planting.
Also, society can definitely survive a couple of degrees of heating. Though it might not be that pleasant for many.
Do you mean buried, like the tree roots do? then half of this biomass is yet buried so we don't need to.
"Some help" is better than "no help at all", and we need a lot of help currently so, what If --we try-- at least?. We could buy some very precious time. If all that we need is to eliminate some old dams, this is a solution that we can afford.
> Society can definitely survive a couple of degrees of heating
We will know the answer to this question in a few years.
It's a matter of efficiency. What is the best use of man hours and land?
I suspect planting trees will very rarely be the answer (judging by some back of the envelope calculations), while making low regulation nuclear power plants or researching energy storage mechanisms will often be.
To survive as society, we need lots of trees growing as fast as possible to fixate CO2 from the air and clean our mess. Ok?
Trees need nitrogen to grow, but this conifer forests lack typically nitrogen so the tree's grow is stunted.
In fact this ecosystems work because there is a major and main external source of nitrogen: The Sea
And more precisely, Salmon migration
The majority of the nitrogen stored in this wild areas came from the salmons. How do we know it? Ecology research.
So, protecting salmon (= removing CO2 from the air) is suddenly a very important issue for us and definitely not a caprice, or something to joke about it.