Can planting trees really stop climate change? | Thomas Crowther
The TED Interview
Climate Change and the Meteor Explosion
The idea that restoration is planting atrillion trees. Not only is that physically impossible, you know, it' takes all humanity tens of thousands of years to plant atrillion Trees. It's also really dangerous, because these monoculture plantations that we see people restoring all over the place are devastating for ego systems. But by far the biggest errors that we made is when the meteor explosion began, it sounded like planting trees can offset climate change.
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