Planting trees today - how much help it can offer in saving the earth in the future?

Answer 1

FOREST DESTRUCTION CREATES MORE HEAT:
Trees play a unique role in the global carbon cycle. They are the largest land-based natural mechanism for removing CO2 from the air. (CO2 is also removed by the oceans and ocean organisms.)
Trees are able to store a large amount of CO2 in their structures. An acre of forest will absorb about 10 times the CO2 amount absorbed by an acre of crop land or grassland. One tree absorbs about 13 pounds of CO2 per year, and each one acre of forest absorbs about 2.8 tons of CO2. However, when trees are burned, the carbon locked in the structure is released into the air in the form of CO2. Today, the shrinking world forests are not able to absorb all the CO2 created by human beings while burning fossil fuels. Everyday over 5500 acres of rain forest are destroyed, and over 50 million acres are destroyed every year. Global CO2 levels rise approximately 0.4 percent each year, to levels not experienced on this planet for millions of years. Planting more trees and reducing timber cuts world-wide will help restore the imbalance, and perhaps buy time as ways are found to reduce world greenhouse gas emissions.

Answer 2

You can't overcome the environmental damage of burning 500 gallons of gasoline every year just by planting a few trees. If it makes you feel good to plant tress, go ahead and do it, but don't fool yourself into thinking that is all we need to do to save the planet!

I see so many posts here saying that saving the planet is so easy; just plant trees. What fools!

Answer 3

it will help very much because one tree makes a difference but as a whole all shud plant trees and then it will help us in sustaining life.