recipes to cut your own carbon footprint

Paul has a youtube video that explains how a rocket mass, left open in the summer, can help cool your house.

The problem with using trees as accounting for removal of carbon is that eventually, nearly all that carbon is released into the atmosphere; there’s a reason they call it the ‘carbon cycle’.

So many trees that are planted to ‘cancel’ emissions (mainly of fossil carbon which had been safely sequestered deep in the Earth) don’t survive long after planting ( a very rough process as usually done; bang! Bang! Bang!). Many others don’t survive to maturity. Others will be consumed by forest fires and go up into the atmosphere. And even those that become 100-300 year old trees will eventually die and decompose, releasing about 80% of their carbon into the atmosphere.
Climate change must be tackled through (1) increasing living plants beyond what currently exists but mainly (2) leaving the fossil carbon in the ground and transforming the way we live.

For the apple tree idea ...   I wonder if there can be people that would gladly receive a thousand apple seeds and plant them.  So if people don't want them, they will get planted.

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