Sadly, our planet only makes life sustainable, there's absolutely no money to make for the shareholders, so there's little to no chance in hell that the powers that be are going to make any effort to prevent our planet going to shit. Remember: Life is temporary, short term gains are eternal
Desalinate the oceans?
Yea, fuck all that marine life that makes most of the oxygen in the atmosphere.
Ocean salinity has increased over the last 200 years, I'm just saying revert it to it's 1800s levels.
This is Yggdrasilly.
That wpuld be cool but ineffective and solve none of the systemic issues.
The world will never be safe until capitalism is dismantled. By definition, capitalism is a virus that expands to consume all resources. You can't use capitalism to make more resources for capitalism to consume in any other way than is resource-negative (laws of thermodynamics).
okay tankie.
Humans would do literally anything before lowering their standard of life
The real Yggdrasil was the forests we cut along the way
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Oh, we could probably create giant trees with selective breeding and gene editing. But those trees would still need hundreds of years to grow (and that's a good thing, since it would store CO2 while growing) and if there are problems with the gene editing we would only notice after decades.
We had the Amazon Rainforest....
The Amazon rainforest is often considered the lungs of the planet. It represents only a small part, the lungs are mainly our oceans.
We can't even take care of that, how could we care for an Yggdrasil?
We can't even take care of that, how could we care for an Yggdrasil?
"Mom I want an Yggdrasil"
"We have Yggdrasil at home"
square-cube law means height, diameter, and weight are all going to be issues.
Isn't algae more effective per volume?
Aren't you forgetting to factor the square of the magnitude of the raw fucking radness though
Radness factor is left out of efficiency calculations way too often
Yes. Algae would be much better. Just don’t mess up the oceans, and the algae will do their job.
Algae is the easiest and most likely to work.
We did experiments with iron seeding, the technology isn't too far, it's basically how the planet used to regulate before us.
That’s just planting trees with extra steps.
Pretty sure that's what forestation is all about.
Was thinking the title was about the Linux distro and was like we can do that. but after reading this ocean algae is way beter for carbon capture than trees. They also don't tend to burn down and release that carbon.
I thought that OP's title was mentioning Yggdrasil as in the IPv6 P2P network.
I thought you were talking about the VR game in Overlord and was ready to post my support but you just want complicated forestry with no regards to marine life
The closest realization of this idea is to potentially cultivate/modify the gene pool and DNA of a tree probably with the use of CRISPR and selective breeding
House of Leaves reference?
A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.