{"id":964,"date":"2009-08-27T10:09:54","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T10:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=964"},"modified":"2009-08-29T10:32:31","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T10:32:31","slug":"do-you-want-to-live-without-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/do-you-want-to-live-without-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you want to live without trees?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8223528.stm\">article<\/a> in today&#8217;s news suggests that we can turn back the tide of carbon by installing thousands of artificial carbon capture trees.<\/p>\n<p>OK, it might help.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s just the wrong kind of thinking and a tremendous waste of materials.\u00a0 It is real trees that we need.<\/p>\n<p>Building steel structures with solar panels and chemical reactors is not going to help re-balance the cycles of nature.\u00a0 They are not going to replace themselves (as trees do).\u00a0 They are just another placebo for western conscience.<\/p>\n<p>This kind of approach to correcting the damage humanity has wrought upon nature is foolish.\u00a0 It is not that we can not &#8220;solve&#8221; the problems with controlling technology, but that these &#8220;solutions&#8221; will result in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astraea.net\/about\/dtrttrw.html#virtual\">planet without nature<\/a>.\u00a0 We might enjoy TV, video games, airconditioning and processed food, but a life with only virtual infrastructure, and no trees, is very unattractive.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s have more trees, please.<\/p>\n<p>BBC:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8223528.stm\">&#8216;Artificial trees&#8217; to cut carbon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BBC: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/programmes\/6374967.stm\">Artificial trees: A green solution?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article in today&#8217;s news suggests that we can turn back the tide of carbon by installing thousands of artificial carbon capture trees. OK, it might help.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s just the wrong kind of thinking and a tremendous waste of materials.\u00a0 It is real trees that we need. Building steel structures with solar panels and &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/do-you-want-to-live-without-trees\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Do you want to live without trees?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36,6,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perspective","category-environment","category-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-fy","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":965,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions\/965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}