“We’re past the tipping point for the glaciers in the Canadian Rockies (…) Even if somehow, magically, we’re able to stop global warming tomorrow and return the atmosphere to more normal CO2 concentrations, we would lose most of the Rockies’ glaciers.”
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“We might have a 20-year window of this much water and then it will start to fall off a cliff,” he says. “How much water is flowing through the river as a function of that time of year is going to start changing remarkably.”
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“It’s sort of become a catchment for contaminants,” says Criscitiello. Legacy contaminants like DDT are starting to melt out of the snowpack, she says. “This has become a concern.”
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The other dirty secret of those tree-planting initiatives is that they just have to plant the tree for the credit, it doesn't actually have to mature; tons of those carbon offset trees just get dug up almost immediately after planting (and long before they can sequester anything).
It'd be more benificial to turn these areas into protected parks and not touch them at all. Obviously there are easy things to do muni wise, ban lawns to some extent lol (push for local flowers and plants, clover ect), add more green space, promote tree planting and dissway tree cutting for the most part.
But yeah capitalism can't fix capitalism.