We already knew that planting trees was an excellent strategy to purify the air and produce clean oxygen, but that doing so is also the smartest and cheapest way to tackle the climate crisis, the scientists who made a first calculation confirm. how many trees could be planted to save the planet.
We already knew that planting trees was an excellent strategy to purify the air and produce clean oxygen, but that doing so is also the smartest and cheapest way to tackle the climate crisis, the scientists who made a first calculation confirm. how many trees could be planted to save the planet.
Trees are allies of the climate, we had already talked about ten reasons for planting a tree. Thanks to their function as natural air purifiers, they are able to interact with all the elements, mitigate the greenhouse effect by absorbing carbon dioxide and other anthropogenic emissions that contribute to changing the climate.
New research estimates that a worldwide planting program could remove two-thirds of all emissions that have been released into the atmosphere by human activities, a figure that scientists describe as "mind-boggling." Specifically according to ecologist Tom Crowther, who works at the Swiss University ETH in Zurich:
"The carbon levels that we could restore if we planted 1,2 billion trees, or at least allow those trees to grow, would be much higher than any other current climate change solution," Crowther said.
According to Crowther, there are currently 3 trillion (3 trillion) trees on the planet. And there are those who already believe in the feasibility of the project, such as the organization Plant for the Planet, which is promoting the “Trillion Tree” campaign (“a billion trees”) precisely to achieve that result.
Professor Crowther has been studying this for some time, but argues that this new quantitative assessment is by far the best strategy to combat climate change. However, it is essential to reverse the current trends in growing greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the combustion of fossil fuels and the destruction of forests.
There are reforestation projects all over the world, just think of Australia, the Sahara and China, but much more needs to be done.
"Climate change seems such an immense and complicated problem, it seems to be someone else's problem, and whether someone else is dealing with it or not, and no one is providing a simple message on how to deal with it," says the ecologist.
To have results, we will have to wait several years and only in a century will it be possible to totally remove 200 billion tons of carbon. But who gets off to a good start is half the battle, you too plant a tree.
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Dominella Trunfio
