"Planting trees to offset GHG emissions" is a virtue-signaling scam for guillible people in the near-totality of cases.
The forest was going to grow anyway. Hastening the process by 1 to 5 decades does fuck-all in the long run.
That same forest is going to get cut down and the wood burned or decomposed in a matter of decades at best.
"Oh but we will protect that forest!" and thus simply moving the wood-cutting to a different place, a place that probably had higher biodiversity value than your semi-artificial tree plantation.
There are few places where the trees wouldn't grow back naturally but an artificial plantation would sustain itself. And then you have to protect that plantation from lugging and fires FOREVER. Good luck with that.
Though if you can see the scam comming from miles away, a forest fire in a non-self-replacing artificial forest is just amother opportunity to virtue-signal a "net zero carbon sink initiative" while memory-holing the previous "net zero emission" went up and smoke, + the GHG emissions of the whole tree-planting entreprise. They won't account for that.
"Planting trees to offset GHG emissions" is a virtue-signaling scam for guillible people in the near-totality of cases.
The forest was going to grow anyway. Hastening the process by 1 to 5 decades does fuck-all in the long run.
That same forest is going to get cut down and the wood burned or decomposed in a matter of decades at best.
"Oh but we will protect that forest!" and thus simply moving the wood-cutting to a different place, a place that probably had higher biodiversity value than your semi-artificial tree plantation.
There are few places where the trees wouldn't grow back naturally but an artificial plantation would sustain itself. And then you have to protect that plantation from lugging and fires FOREVER. Good luck with that.
Though if you can see the scam comming from miles away, a forest fire in a non-self-replacing artificial forest is just amother opportunity to virtue-signal a "net zero carbon sink initiative" while memory-holing the previous "net zero emission" went up and smoke, + the GHG emissions of the whole tree-planting entreprise. They won't account for that.