Trees > Tech: Why Pay for Carbon Capture When Trees Yeet CO2 for Free? 🌳💪
Okay, why are we dumping cash on Carbon Capture (CCS) and Direct Air Capture (DAC) to grab CO2 and stuff it underground? Trees do that job for free! 🌲 They just need water, sun, and some dirt to thrive. Meanwhile, these machines burn energy like crazy to do the same thing. Like, why? 😒
- Trees: Suck up 48 lbs of CO2 a year according to Arbor Day Foundation, make oxygen, look awesome. Planting one costs pocket change. Bonus: animals love ‘em. 🦝
- CCS/DAC: Hundreds of bucks per ton of CO2, needs tons of power, looks like a factory. Could leak or cause issues. No thanks. 🙅♂️
A trillion trees could lock away 200 gigatons of carbon. The Amazon used to eat 2.2B tons a year before we messed it up. DAC’s top plant? Barely 4,000 tons. That’s it? 😂
Sure, trees need time and land, and wildfires are rough. But CCS/DAC ain’t cheap or fast either. Nature’s been killing it forever—why overthink it? 🌍
Meme it: Plant trees, save the planet, skip the tech flex. Trees are the real deal. Let’s just plant more. (And water them amply for the first 5 years!) See how much carbon dioxide a tree can store on average 👇
