Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year, nature's carbon sink failing?

As far as I know from intro to Biology at College

The fuck. Is this really as bad as I think it is? Sounds like were fucked in our own lifetimes if true

The fuck. Is this really as bad as I think it is? Sounds like were fucked in our own lifetimes if true

As far as I know from intro to Biology at College, plants/trees need CO2 for photosynthesis. Not sure why they all of a sudden wouldnt.

Thank god I don't care about this stuff, or I'd be mortified.

There is a good possibility all of us will watch the human race go extinct in the next ten years.

As far as I know from intro to Biology at College, plants/trees need CO2 for photosynthesis. Not sure why they all of a sudden wouldnt.

A few days old, but its horrifying how close we are to a total collapse of a livable planet and people seem to just be trying to keep there heads in the sand...

Yup, and it'll probably deteriorate much quicker than scientists think it will because well, corporate greed says fuck everything profit matters even if the endgame is destruction of the planet

I think it's less that people don't care and more that on a whole we're all powerless to stop it. The only thing that will save our planet is if the world's governments got together and put put policies with the specific goal of saving it. Without that there's nothing we can do because we can't gather enough people to make a difference.

It's always going to be in the hands of the people in power and the people in power largely don't care.

You ever just sit and think about how this isn't like some sudden disaster we didn't see coming? About the people that knowingly pushed passed the scientists and somehow convinced a huge chunk of people to just ignore it? And how if this does turn catastrophic in our life times they'll just shrug and maybe say "oops".

The planet won't be destroyed. Hell, we won't even manage to wipe out life on it. Of course, life as we know it, including our own, will absolutely end, I'm just saying.
Time is a funny thing, you know? I guess in the big picture of my life, you were only a blip. But oftentimes, those "blips" make the biggest impacts.

If Earth is just another rock flying through space with only mindless bugs being left all worthwhile life will be over so its the same thing.

There is a good possibility all of us will watch the human race go extinct in the next ten years.

As far as I know from intro to Biology at College, plants/trees need CO2 for photosynthesis. Not sure why they all of a sudden wouldnt.

iirc, plants stop processing co2 if it gets too hot for them

The planet won't be destroyed. Hell, we won't even manage to wipe out life on it. Of course, life as we know it, including our own, will absolutely end, I'm just saying.

You ever just sit and think about how this isn't like some sudden disaster we didn't see coming? About the people that knowingly pushed passed the scientists and somehow convinced a huge chunk of people to just ignore it? And how if this does turn catastrophic in our life times they'll just shrug and maybe say "oops".

Don't look up.

Ok, plants absorb CO2... but when plants die that CO2 is released. CO2 is only sequestered for the lifespan of a tree plus its decomposition time

The only counter is not just planting more trees, but continually planting more trees on a schedule to account for the death of old trees.

the other other solution is to somehow store or fossilize dead trees so they don't release their sequestered CO2

If done right, the trees will plant more trees.

CO2 itself isnt really some duper bad substance. Its naturally occurring you drunk some in any carbonated beverage you had this week. The problem is people being stupid. Plant more trees to replace the trees you chop down problem solved. Trees dont release some large harmful amount of gases into the atmosphere when they die. You know what produces large amounts of greenhouse gases? LARGE MANUFACTURING PLANTS do and I almost never see that actual problem pointed out in these conversations. Trees SOLVE THE PROBLEM when left alone!

Basic actual science 101. The solution isnt hard or unattainable it just makes too much sense and people need to be outraged or confused all the time. Plant more trees, stop clear cutting trees and destroying the Amazon regulate the actual large plants who never stopped releasing pollutants into the atmosphere (hint: most arent even in America) and the problem is solved in less than a decade. 2020 showed us we can clean up the oceans in less than a year and the skies cleared up a lot too.

We're fucked and it doesn't matter, is the long as short. Our governments are absolutely useless, corps are enjoying a golden era of recycling money with investment/wealth management firms for infinite money so they barely need consumers, and the environment is dying for this glorious moment of line go up.

People don't care because they're distracted by entertainment and instant gratification at every turn, corps didn't care because that generates money, governments don't care because they're too busy dick measuring about who has the most sway and can pander the most while slipping in laws to objectively make the human experience worse.

So... Embrace it. Do what you can, but it won't make a difference at this point, it's WAY out of the hand of the public and the other entities couldn't possibly care less.

This is 100% correct. Im even tempted to just pack in my study (that Im already failing anyway) because what future is there to lose? Just sit home and drink alcohol.

And the worst part is boomers have the nerve to call us lazy for saying that despite being the fucking assholes who screwed our future in the first place.

Yeah, let's respond to boomers' disastrous apathy toward the issue with more apathy ourselves. Let's just drink our problems away like they do!