{"id":96817,"date":"2019-09-29T20:23:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/how-tech-can-help-curb-emissions"},"modified":"2019-09-29T20:23:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:23:33","slug":"how-tech-can-help-curb-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/how-tech-can-help-curb-emissions","title":{"rendered":"How Tech Can Help Curb Emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-tech-can-help-curb-emissions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wangari Maathai for years told people to plant trees. She is the reason Kenyans plant trees in protected forests, and will continue for a very long time.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Trees are a low-tech, high-efficiency way to offset much of <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2019\/05\/22\/how-realistic-are-the-global-climate-change-targets-new-research-weighs-in\/\">humankind\u2019s negative impact on the climate<\/a>. What\u2019s even better, we have plenty of room for a lot more of them.<\/p>\n<p>A new study conducted by researchers at Switzerland\u2019s ETH-Z\u00fcrich, published in <a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/365\/6448\/76\"><em>Science<\/em><\/a>, details how Earth could support almost an additional billion hectares of trees without the new forests pushing into existing urban or agricultural areas. Once the trees grow to maturity, they could store more than 200 billion metric tons of carbon.<\/p>\n<p>Great news indeed, but it still leaves us with some huge unanswered questions. Where and how are we going to plant all the new trees? What kind of trees should we plant? How can we ensure that the new forests become a boon for people in those areas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wangari Maathai for years told people to plant trees. She is the reason Kenyans plant trees in protected forests, and will continue for a very long time. Trees are a low-tech, high-efficiency way to offset much of humankind\u2019s negative impact on the climate. What\u2019s even better, we have plenty of room for a lot more [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}