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It’s a ludicrous proposal, requiring these trees to be planted in other nations. And nothing to say of the logistics of keeping 1 trillion trees alive long enough to maturity. Or even to just produce the saplings and ship them. If you do the math on just raising a trillion saplings, it’s mind boggling.


> It’s a ludicrous proposal, requiring these trees to be planted in other nations.

Doesn't everything to address climate change require things to be done in other countries?


True, I didn’t mean working with other nations is ludicrous, only that the largest countries by area that could host these trees are the US, China, and Russia, and we’re not best friends right now. You’d have to pick a lot of smaller area countries to cooperate and when you bring in the logistics, it goes out of control.


Not to compensate for the US' own CO2 production.


The math on the saplings is easy. Grow 10,000 before the next election, then grow the rest right after that. :)




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