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How These Super Trees Grow Faster (and Store More Carbon)
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Living Carbon has developed enhanced trees to fight climate change that can grow faster and store more carbon than trees grown naturally.
Check out our video explaining carbon capture:
0:00 Introduction
0:47 Living Carbon
2:08 Climate Change
2:41 Photosynthesis 101
3:30 Living Carbon’s Trees
5:33 Carbon Credits
6:10 Ethics of Genetically Modified Trees
6:53 Future of Living Carbon
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Do you think Living Carbon’s trees can put an actual dent in climate change?
Fighting “climate change” is never the goal of these kinds of companies, monetize carbon credit is. Anyone with basic ecology/forestry/agronomy background will realize monoculture planting/farming would cause more harm to the overall environment.
Great in theory but apes, sorry, humans aren’t exactly known for doing what’s good in the long term.
Don’t speed up the rythm of Nature. Better give it the space it needs, and stop polluting everything..
Create a super plant. bamboo x giant red wood.
The Last Poets summed it up 50 years ago in their song about having a “God complex”. Stop thinking you can overcome nature! There surely are good reasons why photosynthesis is inefficient. These folks should RESTORE nature; don’t try to improve upon it. This project is ripe for unintended consequences. Just use natural landrace trees that are autochthonous, practice biodiversity and be prolific in replanting.
First of all, the government has signed off on very fast growing trees. All the pine we use in new construction is a hybrid tree that grows extra fast!
Well Biden said he wants to plant 1 billion trees. It would be foolish not to be these.…
Guy in the sweats looks like he rolls around naked in his trees at any given time.
Optimal level of Co2 should be 1200 ppm
I guess this is one way if politicians and companies do not want to take action.
My only issue is that those people in power will not change their behaviour when this technology comes to fruition.
0 practicality
what’s the point if you can’t grow it quicker by seeds & stem cuttings
I have a few questions. How much faster do the enhanced trees grow vs normal trees? Does wood from modified trees have different properties than wood from normal trees. Would the modified trees need additional fertilizer or water compared to normal trees? Would the seeds from the modified trees produce normal trees? Since these trees all come from the same gene pool, if an insect / mold / agent figures out a way to utilize the new trees couldn’t a whole forest be lost in a very short time amount of time?
Ficus religiosa tree has more carbon sequestration than all other trees in the world , please do more research on it
“There are no shortage of advocacy groups who are opposed to anything genetically modified …”
The correct answer is that those groups are made up of idiots and should be ignored, not mollifying them
Age quicker?
One day Alien will show up and ask if they can get extra carbon dioxide we don’t need in Earth.
Start taxing the top 1% (Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates.. etc) for excessive carbon emissions. They do Not pay taxes anyway… Global warming will be over in a year or two.
Love it !
“Keep polluting it’s our source of income!”
Better trees, can we stop interfering and just plant more trees, not that I agree with global warming.
Apply this to fruit so that we could grow fruit in a day
Better then using machines to capture carbon that run on fossil fuels. Carbon capture machines are only viable if they can take what it took to manufacture them and their renewable energy source carbon out of the air and run them on renewables. The worst that may happen with these genetically modified trees is passing those genetics on.
The climate is already changing, prevention is over. Halting and reversal are all that’s left.
“That’s the emissions of millions of people” or just one billionaire.