farmerm
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43 bn tonnes of CO2 emitted from fossil fuels... this does not include CO2 emissions from deforestation, soil degradation and methane from landfill and billions more farting humans. Forget offsetting the 43bn tonnes from underground fossil fuels, annually we are not even close to offsetting the losses of carbon to the atmosphere from surface and near surface stores!Can someone who knows their figures better than me come up with the amount of co2 emitted globally annually compared to the amount which can realistically be expected to be absorbed by the earths soil and trees?
My guess is that no amount of offsetting will compensate for annual emissions.
5,000 square miles of mature Brazilian rainforest was felled last year... Wales is about 8,000 square miles so to offset Brazils deforestation for just one year we need to plant trees on every acre of Wales that is not houses, roads or rock... It is mathematically impossible to start offsetting carbon emitted from fossil fuels.