Trees-The Best Investment for a Better Tomorrow!!

[adam]

Got this interesting statistic on the net and thought would share it with you all.....
If the average motorist does 400kms per week in a 2L petrol car then 19 trees should be planted to absorb all the CO2 created. As the car drives, the trees grow. Planting 19 trees will offset all your vehicle’s emissions for as long as you live, as long as the trees are not felled of course. With 700 million vehicles on the road globally (2005) that means there is a need to plant around 13000 million trees. If each tree occupies 20m2 (area of 4 x 5 m) then the total land mass of new trees needed just to offset vehicle pollution is equivalent to an area the same size as either the UK, Ecuador or New Zealand

[ryan]

Don't let anyone try to fool you that planting millions of trees is the solution to global warming and that cutting trees stops CO2 from being removed from the environment. All trees will indeed remove CO2 from the environment, BUT when these trees fall and decompose, they return all of the carbon back to the environment and we end up where we started. Some people might say, "turn trees into paper." That won't work either, because, unless we put all paper, cardboard, etc. in an airtight container and not allow it to decompose, then it will still return all the carbon. One real solution is to turn it into furniture, but how much furniture can we made before everyone owns 18 dressers? So, in short, trees do remove CO2 in the short run, but unless we are going to sequester EVERY SINGLE TREE and not allow it to decompose, then we are right back where we started.

[adam]

What exactly are you trying to suggest??? Because there a quite a few points that you mentioned and then the next line completely disregards what you had initially suggested...

Please enlighten me with your 'knowledge',O great one!!