Cancelling carbon pollution
Forty-three million. That’s how many trees would have had to be planted to offset all the carbon produced from the 20,000 plus international visitors to the recently cancelled COP25 UN climate change summit in Santiago, Chile. Veteran environmentalist and tree planter Paul Coleman, who has built a sustainable abode near La Junta along the
Carretera Austral in Chilean Patagonia, dug into the issue prior to the annual UN shin dig and found, for example, that just a roundtrip flight from London to Santiago is equivalent to 1.85 metric tons of carbon produced. That would require planting 4,302 trees in Patagonia within the year to absorb all of the carbon. Skype anyone?