Can Planting Trees Fix Climate Change? (Plants & Biomes): Crash Course Botany #14
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Date: 2023-08-31
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The #1 problem regarding fossil fuels is that coal, oil, and gas are all carbon forms that were completely removed from the carbon cycle. Even if you sequester carbon in trees, the trees still burn down or get digested, releasing ALL of their sequestered CO2 in the process.
In fact, I believe it was coal that was created by plants that fell before any decomposers could process cellulose. So that was the only time coal could have been created naturally and sequestered that permanently.
Unless we are doing something like solidifying carbon and shooting it into space or burying it in the ground, everything we emit is permanently a part of the carbon cycle and not reversible by any natural means that currently exist. Like, nature can adapt, but not with out massive, massive amounts of death in the process. We invented our way into it. If we want to undo it in some way, we have to invent our way out.
Personally, I like the idea of somehow converting it forms of carbon to be used as materials rather than fuels. Carbon-based ICs, carbon-based construction materials, etc. The issue is that if you incentivize demand for carbon, the atmosphere isn't the cheapest source. In fact, natural gas usually is. So then you start incentivizing burning natural gas simply for the sake of burning natural gas.
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The #1 problem regarding fossil fuels is that coal, oil, and gas are all carbon forms that were completely removed from the carbon cycle. Even if you sequester carbon in trees, the trees still burn down or get digested, releasing ALL of their sequestered CO2 in the process.
In fact, I believe it was coal that was created by plants that fell before any decomposers could process cellulose. So that was the only time coal could have been created naturally and sequestered that permanently.
Unless we are doing something like solidifying carbon and shooting it into space or burying it in the ground, everything we emit is permanently a part of the carbon cycle and not reversible by any natural means that currently exist. Like, nature can adapt, but not with out massive, massive amounts of death in the process. We invented our way into it. If we want to undo it in some way, we have to invent our way out.
Personally, I like the idea of somehow converting it forms of carbon to be used as materials rather than fuels. Carbon-based ICs, carbon-based construction materials, etc. The issue is that if you incentivize demand for carbon, the atmosphere isn't the cheapest source. In fact, natural gas usually is. So then you start incentivizing burning natural gas simply for the sake of burning natural gas.
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Avilon a
Instead of enforcing more regulations on these billion dollar oil companies we're encouraged to do these really small tasks with little significant change to the rate of climate change, we wouldn't be here in the first place if corporations would just put the planet and its people first.
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Instead of enforcing more regulations on these billion dollar oil companies we're encouraged to do these really small tasks with little significant change to the rate of climate change, we wouldn't be here in the first place if corporations would just put the planet and its people first.
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VoteForPedro
I'm sure this will come up in another video, but the ocean's are an incredibly large souce of oxygen for the planet. Once we begin boiling them, we start the doomsday timer. Hopefully we can curtail our oil dependency soon.
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I'm sure this will come up in another video, but the ocean's are an incredibly large souce of oxygen for the planet. Once we begin boiling them, we start the doomsday timer. Hopefully we can curtail our oil dependency soon.
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VeganButterChicken
BE VEGAN PLEASE, it's a humble request.
You might take it as a joke but, try learning about the philosophy of Veganism. It's a request
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BE VEGAN PLEASE, it's a humble request.
You might take it as a joke but, try learning about the philosophy of Veganism. It's a request
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