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<blockquote data-quote="tuxgeo" data-source="post: 6921052" data-attributes="member: 61026"><p>Very little about all of this is "spare." (Even the old quote of, "Woodman, Spare that Tree!" is hardly relevant.)</p><p>Not all carbon in trees automatically evaporates into the ionosphere upon the death of the tree. Instead, some of the wood from trees felled decades ago is still in solid form -- as wood-framed houses, paper in books and magazines, furniture, and other uses. (Tool-handles?) Further, trees have the habit of reproducing themselves via seeding, so not all the trees we need for sequestration need to be planted by hand -- the trees themselves will do a lot of the work for us if we place well-selected species in groups where they can cross-pollinate each other. (A stand of tamarack here, a stand of loblolly there, a stand of Balm-of-Gilead down by the river; they add up, and multiply naturally with each other's help.) </p><p></p><p>However, the larger issue is that none of that can overwhelm the human race's annual release of CO2 into the atmosphere -- <em>at current rates of consumption of fossil fuels</em>. Hence, we need to reduce rates of consumption of fossil fuels. </p><p>We're working on that, through incremental additions of solar, wind, tidal, nuclear, and other non-carbon-releasing sources of energy. </p><p>We need to continue our work on that. However, the energy economy of the world is very large compared to the size of our annual efforts, so it's going to take us years, and much more likely decades, to get anywhere near close to an annual carbon balance. </p><p></p><p>It isn't a matter of having "a generation to spare": Nobody in this thread (that I know of) is suggesting that we "wait a generation" before beginning efforts to reduce Carbon release; instead, it is recognized that we are already making efforts to reduce Carbon release. </p><p></p><p>Rather than being a matter of having "a generation to spare," it's a matter of doing the things we can <em>when we can</em> to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, replacing them with cleaner sources, while at the same time mitigating the effect of the Carbon that has already been released into the atmosphere. </p><p></p><p>We don't actuallly have to wait until we have replaced all use of fossil fuels with nuclear power before we start to plant more trees to sequester more of the CO2 that we have already released into the atmosphere. Instead, the two projects -- namely, <em>reducing use of fossil fuels</em> for one, and <em>sequestering atmospheric Carbon</em> for the other -- can be active at the same time, operating in parallel.</p><p></p><p>. . . and then there's the geological process of the production of Limestone at the bottoms of the seas, which sequesters some Carbon in the rocks; but that's not anything we can do much to advance or retard.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tuxgeo, post: 6921052, member: 61026"] Very little about all of this is "spare." (Even the old quote of, "Woodman, Spare that Tree!" is hardly relevant.) Not all carbon in trees automatically evaporates into the ionosphere upon the death of the tree. Instead, some of the wood from trees felled decades ago is still in solid form -- as wood-framed houses, paper in books and magazines, furniture, and other uses. (Tool-handles?) Further, trees have the habit of reproducing themselves via seeding, so not all the trees we need for sequestration need to be planted by hand -- the trees themselves will do a lot of the work for us if we place well-selected species in groups where they can cross-pollinate each other. (A stand of tamarack here, a stand of loblolly there, a stand of Balm-of-Gilead down by the river; they add up, and multiply naturally with each other's help.) However, the larger issue is that none of that can overwhelm the human race's annual release of CO2 into the atmosphere -- [I]at current rates of consumption of fossil fuels[/I]. Hence, we need to reduce rates of consumption of fossil fuels. We're working on that, through incremental additions of solar, wind, tidal, nuclear, and other non-carbon-releasing sources of energy. We need to continue our work on that. However, the energy economy of the world is very large compared to the size of our annual efforts, so it's going to take us years, and much more likely decades, to get anywhere near close to an annual carbon balance. It isn't a matter of having "a generation to spare": Nobody in this thread (that I know of) is suggesting that we "wait a generation" before beginning efforts to reduce Carbon release; instead, it is recognized that we are already making efforts to reduce Carbon release. Rather than being a matter of having "a generation to spare," it's a matter of doing the things we can [I]when we can[/I] to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, replacing them with cleaner sources, while at the same time mitigating the effect of the Carbon that has already been released into the atmosphere. We don't actuallly have to wait until we have replaced all use of fossil fuels with nuclear power before we start to plant more trees to sequester more of the CO2 that we have already released into the atmosphere. Instead, the two projects -- namely, [I]reducing use of fossil fuels[/I] for one, and [I]sequestering atmospheric Carbon[/I] for the other -- can be active at the same time, operating in parallel. . . . and then there's the geological process of the production of Limestone at the bottoms of the seas, which sequesters some Carbon in the rocks; but that's not anything we can do much to advance or retard. [/QUOTE]
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