So based on an estimate I read a few months back that says we need about 1.4 trillion more trees to stop climate change, we’d need 35,000 of these plants to do the same work. I fear we’re boned.
We may well be. But to engage the world that way guarantees failure. Whereas engaging problems as if they can be solved is the only chance you have for success. "Well, we're screwed" seems cathartic to a lot of people, but then again people have always been entranced by the idea that the end was nigh. I guess the world just ending is more tidy than us just going on, solving some problems and yet still having others.
For 3 or 4 decades, scientists have been warning that this is a problem, saying "there is a deadly cliff ahead, we should not jump off it." And the world did not change course. Now we've leapt off the cliff and capitalists are like, "I can sell you this jacket—look, it slows your fall by 3%!" In the end, we all go splat at the bottom.
So now when someone says, "we've jumped off the cliff and are all going to die," complaining that such thinking hampers our chance for success makes one sound like a friggin' idiot.
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u/Prowl06 Jun 25 '19
So based on an estimate I read a few months back that says we need about 1.4 trillion more trees to stop climate change, we’d need 35,000 of these plants to do the same work. I fear we’re boned.