Trees VS Climate Change : More Trees Planted Can Stop the Climate Changes?

 Earth is experiencing climate change on a scale and pace never before seen since our species has been on the planet, and we're causing it by pumping more heat-trapping carbon into the atmosphere than earth's natural systems can take out.

Now fixing a problem as massive as climate change is gonna take a ton of different solutions, but more and more people are asking if trees might be a big part of the answer. for the past 370 million years or so, they've been one of the major ways earth sucks excess carbon out of the atmosphere and stores it away. and along with green plants and algae, this natural technology captures carbon better and cheaper than any human technology we're come up with so far. But, can trees actually make a big enough difference in cleaning up our mess? Or are we... well, barking up the wrong tree?at being trees.

I'm gonna dig into 3 different ways trees might help solve climate change: Planting a bunch more trees, saving the trees we're already got, and whether the field of synthetic biology might give scientists the power to hack photosynthesis and make trees even better.

PLANTING

MORE TREES:

21 million trees covers a lot less area than you think, and according to researchers. , an area of new forest that size can capture 4 million tons of carbon dioxide... spread out over tens of years. considering that the world is emitting almost 10 *billion* tons of carbon every year. There are some people who've changed the world in incredible ways that almost everyone knows about. Gutenberg and the printing press. Albert Einstein and relativity. Jonas Salk and the polio vaccine. But there are others that, for some reason, we never learn about. wangari Maathai is one of those people. Maathai was an African biologist who had an idea: Women planting trees across Africa could improve communities, conserve the environment, and improve human rights at the same time. she won the Nobel peace prize for her work, but few people know her name. One of them most beautiful things she did was she said she used tree planting as not only a tool for a nature conservation, but also for women's empowerment.

STOP CUTTING TREES DOWN

Remember, trees are basically big carbon storage machines that suck CO2 out of the atmosphere and turn it into more tree. Cutting those trees down and either burning them or letting them decompose just puts that carbon back in the atmosphere. Most deforestation happens in Earth's tropical regions. If this tropical deforestation were a country, it would be the third biggest emitter of carbon in the world after China and the US. Almost 1/3rd of all the world's carbon emissions since 1850 have come from deforestation. These days, forests remove about a quarter of the CO2 humans emit into the atmosphere each year and store it away. there is more carbon locked up in the world's trees than in all the fossil fuels still remaining in the ground. And beyond carbon, tropical forests act sort of like the planet's air conditioning. they pull moisture out of the ground, release water vapor into the sky, and literally create rain and weather patterns across the globe. cutting down these tropical forests can raise nearby temperature by as much 3 degree celsius. 

So keeping the trees we have is essential if we want to keep climate change from getting even worse. So basically protecting the trees we already have is cheaper and easier than planting new ones. But natural processes like photosynthesis, on land and in the ocean, are only absorbing about half the CO2 we currently emit every year. I mean, if you think of this like money, we're spending more than we earn in our carbon budget. And many experts think saving trees and planting as many new ones as we can are both part of the answer. But there is one more idea that could make a big difference, and it relies on something called "synthetic biology".

CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE

Human activities from pollution to overpopulation and cutting of trees also are driving up the earth's temperature and fundamentally changing the world around us. The main cause is a phenomenon known as the greenhouse effect gases in the atmosphere such as water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and chlorofluorocarbons let the sun's light in but keep some of the heat from escaping like glass walls of a greenhouse. the more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere the more heat gets trapped strengthening the greenhouse effect and increasing the earth's temperature. Human activities like the burning of fossil fuels and cutting down the trees  have increased the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere by more than a third since the industrial revolution, the rapid increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has warmed the planet at an alarming rate and while Earth's climate has fluctuated in the past atmospheric carbon dioxide hasn't reaches today's levels in hundreds of thousands of years.

HOW GOVT ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE THEME (TREE VS CLIMATE CHANGE)

As you know, our government did not pay attention to trees or climate change. EXAMPLE- some days ago, a protest held in Goa against the government projects. Actually there the fight is against development v/s nature in which the government wants to cut down the forests in the ecologically sensitive areas in the name of development. There three projects passes by govt:

1.Double Tracking an existing Railway line

2.Four laning of the existing NH-4A

3.Laying a 400KV transmission line

In these projects of government, 80,000 trees were cutting down that make a huge change in climate in future.

GOA MOLLEM PROTEST:https://ajeetsingh7415.blogspot.com/2021/01/goa-mollem-protests-i-fight-against.html

 While On 7th february, Uttarakhand chamoli district area witnessed a flood because of a glacier burst and the force was so much that peoples didn't get time to react. This disaster is also happened by climate changing, some experts said that but not confirm the exact reason for this flood in Uttarakhand.

UTTARAKHAND GLACIER BURST:https://ajeetsingh7415.blogspot.com/2021/02/uttarakhand-glacier-burst-causes-and.html

World's tallest statue is now in our country-STATUE OF UNITY as all of you know very well about it. But you don't know the reality that the idol of Sardar Vallabhbhai patel has been cut down by hundreds of trees without any thinking by our government.

STATUE OF UNITY:https://ajeetsingh7415.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-reality-of-statue-of-unity.html

CLIMATE CHANGE:THE TROUBLE WITH TREES

Very few trees can compete with this carbon impact, but today, humanity produces more than 1,400 tons of carbon every minute. to combat climate change, we need to steeply reduce fossil fuel emissions, and draw down axcess CO2 to restore our atmosphere's balance of greenhouse gases. But what can trees do to help in this fight? And how do they sequester carbon in the first place? Like all plants, trees consume atmosphere carbon through a chemical reaction called photosynthesis. This process uses energy from sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and energy store carbohydrates. Plants then consume these carbohydrates in a reverse process called respiration, converting them to energy and releasing carbon back into the atmosphere. In trees, however, a large portion of that carbon isn't released, and instead, is stored as newly formed wood tissue. during their lifetimes, trees act as carbon vaults, and they continue to draw down carbon for as long as they grow. However, when a tree dies and decays, some of its carbon will be released back into the air. a significance amount of CO2 is stored in the soil, where it can remain for thousands of years. but eventually, that carbon also seeks back into the atmosphere. so if trees are going to help fight a long-term problem like climate change,they need to survive to sequester their carbon for the longest period possible, while also reproducing quickly. Is there one type of tree we could plant that meets these criteria? some fast growing, long-lived, super sequesting species  we could scatter worldwide? Not that we know of.

But even if such a tree existed,it would be a long term solution, Forest are complex networks of living organisms, and there's no one species that can thrive in every ecosystem. the most sustainable trees to plant are always native ones; species that already play a role in their local environment.

Trees are a solution we already have. But as I hope you've realized by now, even if we saved every trees that already exists, and even if we planted trees in every spot on Earth that could hold them, we still wouldn't be absorbing all the climate changing carbon that we emit each year. The bottom line is this: No matter what climate change solution we are talking about, whether it's trees or electric cars or synthetic meat......none of it will work unless putting so many greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. It's really that simple. solving climate change isn't just about what se do, It's about what we stop doing too.........!