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The Environment / Should governments be planting more trees?
« on: 17/11/2011 05:19:00 »
Trees are not good carbon sinks. Unless you grow a forest then cut it all down and buy the trees. Lets face it that is not what happens. The carbon that is causing problems has not come from forests being cut down. It has come from all the fossil fuels being extracted from the earth and burnt, releasing the carbon that was formerly locked up underground.
I believe trees do have other positive effects but carbon control is not one of them. I believe it would help our environment especially soil erosion if tree based agriculture was a better option for farming. I believe more effort should be put into increasing the productivity of food producing trees. If the same effort was but into trees as has been put into wheat and rice the situation would be a lot better now.
I believe trees do have other positive effects but carbon control is not one of them. I believe it would help our environment especially soil erosion if tree based agriculture was a better option for farming. I believe more effort should be put into increasing the productivity of food producing trees. If the same effort was but into trees as has been put into wheat and rice the situation would be a lot better now.