Every tree that is planted soaks up many tons of carbon from the atmosphere while it grows. Large scale planting could buy us several decades to redesign our lifestyles in a long term effort to counter the greenhouse effect.
What now remains compared with what then existed is like the skeleton of a sickman, all fat and soft earth having wasted away, and only the bare framework of the land being left.
Never has the planet been more in need of forests. Never have the forests been under greater pressure than they are today.
At present, some five billions tons of excess carbon find their way into the Earth's atmosphere every year.
No comments:
Post a Comment