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What one tree can’t do

Trees are one of the most effective and readily available carbon capture tools we have but there isn’t enough land for all the trees we’d need.

June 29, 2022
One mature tree will absorb roughly 48 pounds of CO2 in a year, enough to offset the impact of less than 1 average US beef patty, or about four hours of home gas furnace heat, or one third of a microsecond mining bitcoin, or a one way car trip between Sante Fe and Alburquerque, or one month of diapers for a baby, or .000000044% of semiconductor manufacturing.
Susie Cagle
An axe chopping tree with text: There are fewer trees on earth today than any previous point in history.
factory smokestacks and trees with text: Of the ~40 gigatons of C-O-2 we emit each year the biosphere captures 18 gigatons.
stylized map of the United states with text: In order to keep pace, we'd need to plant a new forest the size of the U-S
SUSIE CAGLE
hand planting a seedling with text: and then wait decades for all those seedlings to grow up.

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