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We must not lose sight of the wood for the trees.
There are few reports on the effects of the accident on wild animals, but we know that in some radiation hot spots trees and wildlife died.
How was it preserved by digging up runways, uprooting olive trees, and fouling wells?
Because trees are the best carbon-capture-and-storage technology the world has, reversing these numbers would bring a significant reduction in global carbon levels.
We estimate that the world could capture three gigatons of CO2 annually – equivalent to taking more than 600 million cars off the roads – simply by planting more trees.
Still, however gloomy the outlook, we do stagger on – the flowers still bloom, the breeze stirs the trees, the birds sing, and children laugh.
Forgetting permits us to transcend details and generalize, to see the forest and not just the trees.
Instead, policymakers miss the forest for the trees, as the IEO report shows.
Moreover, its hundreds of billions of trees store massive amounts of carbon.
Hugging a Burning TreePRAGUE – We are all brought up to recycle paper to save trees.
But now, in the name of saving the planet from climate change, environmentalists are proposing an immense global campaign to cut down and burn trees and scrubs in order to reduce fossil-fuel use.
But we are about to diminish biodiversity, over-extract water, make food more expensive, and waste hundreds of billions of dollars – all while cutting down trees to burn them and potentially increasing CO2 emissions.
As far as can be determined, that object detonated on June 30, 1908, with the power of a nuclear weapon, felling 80 million trees over a 2,000-square-kilometer area.
Things are even worse in Palestinian towns farther afield, such as Hebron, where Israeli settlers often behave like Wild West gunslingers, flouting the laws of their own country as they drive away Palestinians by cutting down their trees, poisoning their livestock, and subjecting them to other forms of torment, including fatal shootings, which have gone unpunished.
BECCS entails planting a huge amount of grass and trees, burning the biomass to generate electricity, capturing the CO2 that is emitted, and pumping it into geological reservoirs underground.
Then there are the CO2 emissions from producing synthetic fertilizers; clearing trees, shrubs, and grass from hundreds of millions of hectares of land; destroying large reservoirs of soil carbon; and transporting and processing the switchgrass.
Re-roofing most of the city’s five million homes in lighter colors, painting a quarter of the roads and planting 11 million trees would have a one-time cost of about $1 billion.
With his Civilian Conservation Corps, for example, young men were enlisted to clean up the wilderness and plant trees.
Trees consume large amounts of carbon dioxide as they grow, making them vital tools for absorbing the greenhouse-gas emissions – from cars, factories, power stations, and livestock – that result in climate change.
The second option is more proactive: plant billions of new trees.
And, indeed, trees have been cultivated for profit for millennia.
We must take advantage of this opportunity, by pursuing a construction transformation based on restoring trees, the world’s most effective carbon-capture tool.
This is partly because trees cannot grow forever: China’s economy could not continue to get 10% bigger every year.
In a media culture that can deliver instant stardom and fickle trends, our attention shifts too rapidly to see the forest for the trees.
To suggest that parking bays can be carved out of sidewalks is like saying a park or a plaza can be turned into an open-air parking lot with trees.
Generally, cities in developing countries cannot afford architectural jewels such as Notre Dame; but they can have formidable pedestrian avenues shaded by enormous tropical trees.
To be sure, photographic and video images relayed by the media have shown trees swept away by waves and water-drenched lands.
If, for example, a pathogen is transmitted by an insect that lives in the tops of trees, susceptible hosts will not be infected if they never leave the ground.
For most of human history, trees were decimated wherever humans settled.
And, as planting trees along streets demonstrate, such solutions do not have to be complicated.
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