afforestation
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afforestations
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So ramping up afforestation – or tree planting - will not be an easy task.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2025
That said, even the more affordable afforestation approach would cause nearly all fossil fuel companies to lose value, according to the researchers — they referred to this as “negative net environmental valuation.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2025
They currently only remove 0.002 gigatonnes of CO2 per year from the atmosphere, compared to 3 gigatonnes through conventional options such as afforestation, and they are unlikely to significantly increase by 2030.
From Science Daily ● May 3, 2024
And carbon removal schemes like those based on afforestation — planting trees that will store carbon as they grow — might last only a few years if a disease or forest fire comes along.
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2023
It would of course be possible, for a time, to prevent famines by more scientific methods of agriculture, and to prevent droughts and floods by afforestation.
From The Problem of China by Bertrand Russell
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