I’m sure we’ve got the technology somewhere. We just need like a giant fucking tree to suck the carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and to desalinate the oceans. Something that’s the size of an island all by itself.
I don’t care if it’s 100 billion trees woven together with some science fuckery, but we need an Yggsrasil if we want to fix the planet.
Think about it. A giant tree out in the middle of the ocean that sucks up all of our carbon dioxide and turns it into more trees and that sucks the salts and minerals and plastics out of the ocean and incorporates those into itself until it grows as tall as 100 billion trees woven together with dark science can possibly grow.
Sure, it’ll cost I don’t know several billion dollars to make this happen a trillion I don’t fucking know, but if we had that the world would get better.
Oh, we could probably create giant trees with selective breeding and gene editing. But those trees would still need hundreds of years to grow (and that’s a good thing, since it would store CO2 while growing) and if there are problems with the gene editing we would only notice after decades.
This is Yggdrasilly.
Yggdiculous
Yggtastic
Humans would do literally anything before lowering their standard of life
That’s just planting trees with extra steps.
Was thinking the title was about the Linux distro and was like we can do that. but after reading this ocean algae is way beter for carbon capture than trees. They also don’t tend to burn down and release that carbon.
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Neat
House of Leaves reference?
Desalinate the oceans?
Yea, fuck all that marine life that makes most of the oxygen in the atmosphere.
Ocean salinity has increased over the last 200 years, I’m just saying revert it to it’s 1800s levels.
That wpuld be cool but ineffective and solve none of the systemic issues.
You mean a giant 2 mile tall 600 yard thick tree in the middle of the Atlantic wouldn’t solve racism??
If that’s the case I don’t even know what COULD solve racism…
Now hold on, maybe if the tree was trained to be as anti-racist as possible…
Yes. It must take a bi-annual sensitivity training and a yearly aptitude test. Truly you are a genius.
The closest realization of this idea is to potentially cultivate/modify the gene pool and DNA of a tree probably with the use of CRISPR and selective breeding
I thought you were talking about network
square-cube law means height, diameter, and weight are all going to be issues.
Isn’t algae more effective per volume?
Aren’t you forgetting to factor the square of the magnitude of the raw fucking radness though
Radness factor is left out of efficiency calculations way too often
Algae is the easiest and most likely to work.
We did experiments with iron seeding, the technology isn’t too far, it’s basically how the planet used to regulate before us.
Yes. Algae would be much better. Just don’t mess up the oceans, and the algae will do their job.
Pretty sure that’s what forestation is all about.
I thought you were talking about the VR game in Overlord and was ready to post my support but you just want complicated forestry with no regards to marine life
