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Rather than benefiting the environment, large-scale tree planting may do the opposite, two new studies have found. One paper says that financial incentives to plant trees can backfire and reduce biodiversity with little impact on carbon emissions. A separate project found that the amount of carbon that new forests can absorb may be overestimated. The key message from both papers is that planting trees is not a simple climate solution. ...

They point to the fact that in the Bonn Challenge nearly 80% of the commitments made to date involve planting monoculture plantations or a limited mix of trees that produce specific products such as fruit or rubber. ...

In the US, even President Donald Trump has rowed in behind the Trillion Trees Campaign.

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Settled Science?! Trees both cause & solve ‘global warming’?! – GOP climate pandering seeks to plant billions of trees

Paul Ehrlich: "I don't know a single person, virologist, epidemiologist on -- I know a lot of them -- I trust them all. Everybody says the same thing. We desperately need a national shutdown, and ordered from the top."

Ehrlich on his book: "The worst mistake we made was to put in scenarios. which are little stories to help you think about the future. But every reviewer treated them as if they were predictions. And I would not do that again."

 Ehrlich: "Even people as smart as Obama won't say we have too many people, we are growing too fast."

"I don't think there is a chance in hell that we will get the changes we need to keep civilization going. I hate to tell you that. But I don't see any sign. I can't be optimistic." -  "I had great hopes I would die before the collapse really got going, but I missed. The smartest thing I ever did was to be born in 1932."

"If you think the health problems of this virus pandemic are serious. They are nothing, absolutely nothing, compared to the health threat of climate change. There is no chance as far as we can tell that this particular coronavirus will kill everybody, but climate disruption can kill everybody. And we have very little time to act. And instead of acting in the right direction, this moronic imbecile (Trump) is working very hard to kill Americans and other human beings in the future for his personal gain and profit." 

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Overpopulation guru Paul Ehrlich still ginning up fear at age 87: ‘It’s insane to have so many people alive at the same time’ – Claims: ‘Trump’s got a lot of blood on his hands’

Paul Ehrlich: "It’s insane to have so many people alive at the same time." ... It turns out, if you want to have a maximum number of people live, the way to do it isn’t to see how many can cram on the planet at one time. The way to do it is to have a sustainable society, millions, but not many billions, for thousands, or millions, of years." ...

"The problem is not so much making automobiles more efficient, it’s getting rid of most of the automobiles."

"The health threat from the COVID-19 virus is trivial, compared to the health threat from climate disruption."

"Trump’s got a lot of blood on his hands already, but that’s nothing, we could lose everybody to climate disruption."

"When you ask what we should be doing, the answer is: we’ve got to change the entire system."

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Also see: Paul Ehrlich on COVID: ‘We desperately need a national shutdown, and ordered from the top’ – Also admits it was ‘mistake’ to put in ‘scenarios’ (predictions) in his ‘Population Bomb’ book

& Reality Check: Accurate Tribute to Paul Ehrlich: ‘Mad…Kook…Lunatic…Disgraced…Worse than Hitler…fear-monger…parasite on Academic system…Bernie Madoff of science’

SEJ’s board member: 'I don’t know that fair or balanced necessarily appear in our mission statement'