'Sounds legit': Elon Musk joins a YouTuber's campaign to plant 20 million trees

[basquebromance]

this is awesome!

'Sounds legit': Elon Musk joins a YouTuber's campaign to plant 20 million trees

 

[Third Party]

this is awesome!

'Sounds legit': Elon Musk joins a YouTuber's campaign to plant 20 million trees

Good idea

 

[peach174]

Hey Great!
It's a start.
We need more of the rich to do things like this.
Elon Musk trees, Michael Jordan with his clinic.
This is the America it used to be where the rich contributed their own wealth for things needed by the community's or other causes.
Not the Government.

 

[Ringel05]

this is awesome!

'Sounds legit': Elon Musk joins a YouTuber's campaign to plant 20 million trees

There are more trees now in the US than 100 years ago at the height of the lumber boom. Gettysburg National Military Park has been cutting trees down that have overgrown much of the area that was once open farmland and fields when the battle occurred. Forest growth nationally has exceeded harvest since the 1940s. By 1997, forest growth exceeded harvest by 42 percent and the volume of forest growth was 380 percent greater than it had been in 1920, the US has only 8% of the world's harvest. The real harvesting problem isn't the US but the rest of the world where it is estimated that 15 billion trees are harvested every year but only 5 billion re-planted.

 

[Dekster]

Not saying it is a bad idea as far as habitat. As far as carbon goes, land vegetation is largely a 1 to one with carbon consumption and carbon releases so there is no real long term benefit as far as climate change.

 

[SSDD]

this is awesome!

'Sounds legit': Elon Musk joins a YouTuber's campaign to plant 20 million trees

Planting prairie grass would do a far better job as it consumes far more CO2 per acre than forest. There was an article about that in Nature I believe way back in the early 90's...some goof ball plowed up acres of prairie grass to plant trees. I forget how much carbon sink capacity he reduced the area by, but it was significant...

 

[fncceo]

California could use a few trees ... they've only been planting bushes for decades...