Ireland has committed to plant 440 million trees to help tackle climate change
Irish officials announced that this will be part of an overall“The Climate Action Plan puts in place a decarbonisation pathway to 2030 which would be consistent with the adoption of a net zero target in Ireland by 2050.”
that we should not require farmers to plant new trees but to simply let portions of land revegetate on their own, to naturally develop into forests. There are an estimated 3 trillion trees on Earth, with about 15 billion of them cut down every year due to human activity. In total, since the onset of human agricultural practices, we have cut down about 46% of all trees on Earth.The global carbon cycle is complicated and constantly fluctuates. Carbon dioxide has previously been several times what it currently is. During these times plants and animals flourished.
There was a shallow sea running through the North American continent 75 Million years ago, a time when carbon dioxide levels were significantly higher than today.As once fertile land experiences decades-long drought, natural disasters become increasingly powerful, and sea-level rise floods coastal cities we will see increasing hardship and death associated with human adaptation to a changing climate..
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