Kind of low-hanging fruit, since it's the cursed orange website, and even they will soon vote it down to the negatives, but it was such a fresh flavor of unhinged that I had to share it.
Full text: (in response to "Per capita CO₂ emissions Over Time")
Let's count trees per capita.
Planting more trees is commonly regarded by leftists/communists/morons and "science" people (that don't know a method from a hole in the ground) as a dumbass solution.
If you want to reduce carbon dioxide in the air, it's simple. Plant more. Why dipshits from the left are against planting trees and carbon sinks shows me they only care about politics.
It might seem counterintuitive but yes, no trees can be better. Like I said, savannahs and deserts shouldn't be forced to be something they aren't. They are unique and important ecosystems in their own right (especially deserts which get a lot of unfair hate) and overwriting them is something we should avoid if we can.
Reforestation can be an important environmental tool but it has to be cautious and done properly and like most things, the better solution is to never cut down trees that aren't needed to begin with. One easy fix to that is to stop eating so much meat, a lot of our deforestation goes to making more land for the food crops that go to the farm animals.
I don't see any justification here for doing nothing, or scolding techbros who just want to grow plants. if your contribution is "don't do it wrong" then I guess that's sort of helpful.
if it makes it easier then imagine the HN guy is saying "let's go wherever we deforested and plant whatever used to be there"
yeah that would be cool. problem is they're saying "stop doing that clean energy shit, just burn coal and plant trees bro"
well that is indeed stupid
Trees are important and reforestation is something we should be focusing on, I don't disagree here. The issue is that in a rush to focus on some magic pill that will solve all of our climate and carbon woes (it won't), we can't be destroying all the other important and valuable ecosystems. Natural biodiversity is incredibly important in all sorts of ways.