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   Alex Wild (alexwild@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jul-2023 02:43:01 JST Alex Wild

   I've seen enough tree plantations to know that planting trees for climate is going to cause as many problems as it solves.

   https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-republicans-trillion-trees-01e455acce4397c0376e82bfa18b72c2

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     Alex Wild (alexwild@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jul-2023 02:42:59 JST Alex Wild

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     Here's what's going to happen, because I've seen it before.

     The government creates a big tree-planting program. A bunch of Wyoming ranchers who just happen to donate to politicians- just a coincidence!- will get paid millions of dollars, which they'll mostly pocket. But they'll buy some cheap non-native seedlings and wreck their native grass rangelands putting them in.

     6 years later, during a drought, the whole thing burns, releasing all the carbon anyway.

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     Alex Wild (alexwild@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jul-2023 02:43:00 JST Alex Wild

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     See also: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/wildfires-are-destroying-californias-forest-carbon-credit-reserves-study-2022-08-05/

     Dave Bonta repeated this.