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Kernel | Trees Won’t Save Us

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How many trees does it take to save the planet? It depends on who you ask. In 2019, a team of researchers led by Francois-Je...

Kernel | Trees Won’t Save Us Issue 2 nonfiction Trees Won’t Save Us written by Jacob Sujin Kuppermann How many trees does it take to save the planet? It depends on who you ask. In 2019, a team of researchers led by Francois-Jean Bastin at Thomas Crowther’s lab at ETH Zurich published a paper in Science with a dramatic prospectus for solving the climate crisis. Their model of Earth’s tree carrying capacity found that the earth could support an additional billion hectares of forest land — land for trees that could, in turn, store 205 gigatons of carbon. This was equivalent, they claimed, to two-

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