If an acre of trees absorbs enough CO2 over one year to equal the amount produced by driving a car 26,000 miles. Then how many trees does the US need/world need vs the amount of cars driving ?
( saw on the one greenie site i was reading where they would like to give china a % of our GNP/ totalUS wealth to be greener)
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According to the DNR in my area the answer is 0, the first thing they do upon buying a piece of ground is to go in and cut every tree on the property down.[:-]
"There are over 600 million motor vehicles in the world today. If present trends continue, the number of cars on Earth will double in the next 30 years."
Using the 600 million car figure I change my estimate to 390,000,000,000 trees needed for the WORLD. I originally used 150 million for just cars in the United States, and I felt that may be conservative anyway.But this is just for fun .. I really don't have any definitive idea of the scope of this issue/formula
Using the 600 million car figure I change my estimate to 390,000,000,000 trees needed for the WORLD. I originally used 150 million for just cars in the United States, and I felt that may be conservative anyway.But this is just for fun .. I really don't have any definitive idea of the scope of this issue/formula
Is there an answer?
The answer is not enough, and that is to just balance automobiles, now add trucks, industries, people..etc...the answer still comes up negative...
It was mentioned that some lumber companies plant 7 for every tree cut, that is just a ratio based on survival rate of the particular species and future harvest projections...
how many trees are needed ?
