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Liquid Trees
(lemmy.world)
A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
While I don't want to spoil the joke (but I will) and I hate techno-optimist solutions that displace actual solutions for our biosphere as much as the next person: supposedly, Belgrade is such a dense concrete hell that trees aren't viable solution (at least in the short term).
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So maybe they can be used in regions that are too hot for trees, like desert cities
They seem to be focusing on CO2. Trees in cities are going to capture a negligible amount of CO2 and for relatively high cost versus doing things outside a city. The point of trees in cities is shade and looking nice (good for mental health). Liquid trees solve neither of those.
And ameliorating the heat island effect.
But mainly quality of life.
And for people who think that the trillion tree idea is anything else than just the oil lobby running with a feel good solution, I have a great podcast episode for you
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3AZIvnCFvavc9Qfs10XPxW
Spotify doesn't work on my phone. Care to link the podcast page on a platform not trying to corner the market, please?
https://podbay.fm/p/the-climate-deniers-playbook/e/1727859600
Much obliged.
I listen to it on apple podcasts if that helps
How, if I can't find out which podcast it is?
You can click the spotify link and it literally tells you what it is
I already said thatspotify doesn't work on my phone (the homepage crashes)
It's an episode of "The Climate Denier's Playbook" entitled "Let's Just Plant a Trillion Trees."
https://podcasts.apple.com/sk/podcast/the-climate-deniers-playbook/id1694759084?i=1000671531664
Also, trees are surprisingly difficult to keep alive if they were artificially introduced to a location. Turns out they don't thrive in a concrete hellscape super well.
Which is why native species are always recommended