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Ross Reid, aka Nerdy About Nature 🌲🤓🤙
@nerdyaboutnature

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In 2021, the Canadian Government committed to planting 2 billion trees over 10 years as part of its work to sequester carbon and mitigate the impacts of climate change, yet with just over 3% planted so far and recent criticism for some ‘creative’ accounting practices that fudge those numbers, we have to ask - is this action worth the hype?  Let’s compare the net carbon benefit of planting these trees versus leaving existing old growth forests standing.  Assuming average stocking on a moderately productive site and using standard carbon models, those 2 billion trees would cover about 1 million hectares of land.  However, to achieve that same carbon benefit over 10 years, you’d need to leave a mere 500 hectares of moderately productive old growth forest standing - thats .05% of the landmass needed for the 2 billion trees program at the cost of absolutely nothing, it’s simply just not cutting old growth forest. Instead, oldgrowth forest continues to be cut down at incredibly high rates, despite BC government claims of the opposite, saying that the amount of old-growth logging in the province has dropped over the past few years, while failing to mention that the percentage of old-growth logging has actually increased. If the Canadian Government really cared about storing carbon and mitigating the impacts of climate change to create healthier, safer and happier communities, it wouldn’t spend all the time, energy and resources with these greenwashed virtue-signalling programs that don’t actually make the impact they claim to, and instead would focus on keeping remaining healthy ecosystems intact to continue to store and sequester carbon while also performing the different ecological functions that will help protect our communities from climate change impacts well into the future. Nerdy About Nature is a passion project that relies on support from folks like you! If you’re enjoying these vids, please consider becoming a patron at Patreon.com/NerdyAboutNature for as little as 1$ per month! 🤙 #canada #2bt #bc #2billiontrees #forest #forestry #logging #climate #climatechange #policy #oldgrowth #conservation #future #greenwashing #worthmorestanding