That’s a valuable service, considering we still release about 2.57 million pounds of CO2 every second, on average.
According to Mother Nature Network, we are doing far too little about climate change in general. However, we are planting trees. Global tree cover has reportedly increased by about 7% in the last 35 years.
Adding nearly 2.5 billion acres of forests could help limit global warming to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit above pre-industrial levels by 2050.
That much warming would still be terrible, but it would be a lot better than 3.6 Fahrenheit! To put that in perspective, 1 billion hectares is slightly larger than the land area of the United States.
