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The best technology that exists is much lower tech than most people think. It's called reforestation. We have lots of space for complex forest ecosystems, and we'd have a lot more if we could start reversing car-dependent suburban sprawl.



Reforesting the planet wouldn't even undo 1 year worth of emissions.

Then what?

And by the way - to eliminate maybe one year's worth of emissions, it'd take a forest ~30 years to grow...

And what're we supposed to eat?

If we're all just going to starve to death - we don't have to worry about cutting emissions...




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