Voluntary Human Extinction Movement

[Rev. Rye]

Fighting climate change is seriously as simple as planting more trees? Okay, here’s a little math problem for you.

In 2018 alone, humanity emitted 37 gigatons of CO2 into the atmosphere. https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressa...63f0b1c6e5
A gigaton is 2 trillion pounds.
A tree captures, on average, 48 pounds of CO2 per year. https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2015/03/...we-breathe

1) How many trees would it take to offset the carbon emissions of humanity for the year of 2018 alone?
2) Do you see why this isn’t a realistic solution, given the answer to A?

It works out to - very roughly - 1.5 trillion trees. This is a figure known to botanists as 'a fuckton of trees'.

Boru

It’s also, according to yet another estimate, 50% of all the trees on the planet. Just to offset all of humanity’s carbon emissions for a single year, it’d require a massive increase in the number of trees. And this problem has been going on for over a fucking century. Those tree nurseries would have to be working overtime.