This video looks critically at the rush to plant trees which is often thought of as a climate change silver bullet. The video strongly dispels this myth and shows that by in large the cap and trade tree planting business is actually bad for the planet because it focuses on monoculture tree plantations (that's where the money is) which store a fraction of the carbon of a natural forest and is uniquely bad for biodiversity and the people that live near them. It shows an alternative as well but you are not going to like it. Just leave the land alone and it will on its own regenerated into a bio diverse mature forest -- in time! Keep in mind that as Paul Hawkin of Drawdown says, "there are 100 proven and scalable solutions to drawdown but no silver bullet -- we have to do them all.
I also provide as second video featuring Simon Lewis, professor of global change science in which he restates the trouble with trees but then goes on to promote biomass burning, energy generations and direct air capture which is according to the consensus of 200 drawdown contributing scientists not yet proven or scalable, lacks data sets sufficient to make conclusions and include in the top 100 solutions
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