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kickbutt_city t1_j1fb2cx wrote

Reply to comment by deinterest in If you guys could have any single innovation right now, what would it be? by Practical_Put_3892

Are you kidding me?? Trees grow on their own without any need for human assistance and have for roughly 400 million years.

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deinterest t1_j1h4ff2 wrote

If we want to reverse global warming we will have to plant trees and manage these forests. And that is not easy.

Some data:

The mean survival rate computed on a sample of agroforestry private trees was 51% while on public trees it was 30%. In woodlots and forest plantations, private trees survived at 65% while the public ones survived at 40%.

On average, about half of trees planted in tropical and sub-tropical forest restoration efforts do not survive more than five years.

Tropical rain forests at some point can no longer sustain themselves either. It's delicate.

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