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https://www.motherjones.com/environm...-saving-trees/

^ That will be great if it's true, OH: a simple remedy which will make the world look a prettier place too. Many governments might be prepared to finance the planting of trees, and imo any city street or industrial landscape, for instance, looks better with a few trees in it.

Unfortunately, this new report paints a starker picture - the worst being that it proposes solutions that you just know will never get implemented:-

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-45775309

The BBC article quotes this commentary on the new report:-

So you're coming around to my POV? The only bright spot is that in the future I might be sitting on the beach front property I always wanted.

See I told you. All we need are plants and water.

I don’t think it’s a one stop solution but it’s way ****ing better than doing nothing. Trees do hold carbon. That’s a fact.

^ Yes, I also doubt that that alone will be enough: to me it's pretty clear that the present exponential population growth has to be reduced, and ditto habits and industries that add to global warming.

^ TBH, there's been no real shift in my pov since I started this thread. Even if the end result is in doubt, you should try to make some personal efforts to reduce your carbon footprint, and you should vote for politicians who promise to protect the environment and turn away, for example, from fossil fuels.
Perhaps these days it sounds like a piece of hippie-dippie nonsense, but I like this Native American saying that I came across recently:


^ HaHa! A joke of course, but even as a joke it has a fallacy: you might instead find yourself sharing your beach-front real-estate with a refugee family from Florida. This would be the benign version, with a system of government-controlled billeting in place. The other version is more apocalyptic, and involves you losing possession of your porch to the millions of refugees moving like a Biblical scourge across the land in advance of the rising sea-levels. :eek:

After reading the article yesterday about the twelve years left the planet has : https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...b0876eda9ef1d7

I am extremely doubtful that the world is suddenly going to change for the better and I do believe that the world will go under. At least in Sweden the report is being taken quite seriously..actually the entire environment issue has been taken quite seriously for quite some time. But then, no matter what we do here, it is not being reflected around us. For example, there is a big push here at keeping the local waters around Stockholm (Mälaren) clean. You can fish for herring , pike, perch in the middle of the city, take it home and eat it. No problem. But then, those waters connect with the Baltic sea and there you have countries like Russia and Lithuania pumping out poison into their waters. And we have to work even harder to keep the water clean. It's not fair but we have to do this in order to keep it clean enough for our environment.

Same thing with the global environment. I don't see countries like the US really taking the report seriously as a whole. I don't think that no mattter what efforts we do here (and they already are saying that now Sweden has to make double the effort we are already making) having an impact on the whole.To be honest, I just feel like doubling my saving efforts at this point, retiring with my husband even earlier then we hoped for, and just go out exploring the world before it is gone. At least I know that that is achievable.

On the latest hurricane from NYT

I’m fairly surprised at how poorly understood this is by so many.

From the same article

Uh, hot water moves more. That’s pretty much the story. The challenge now is accepting that the **** you learned in school affects things.