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I'm sure we've got the technology somewhere. We just need like a giant fucking tree to suck the carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and to desalinate the oceans. Something that's the size of an island all by itself.

I don't care if it's 100 billion trees woven together with some science fuckery, but we need an Yggsrasil if we want to fix the planet.

Think about it. A giant tree out in the middle of the ocean that sucks up all of our carbon dioxide and turns it into more trees and that sucks the salts and minerals and plastics out of the ocean and incorporates those into itself until it grows as tall as 100 billion trees woven together with dark science can possibly grow.

Sure, it'll cost I don't know several billion dollars to make this happen a trillion I don't fucking know, but if we had that the world would get better.

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[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 45 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

We had the Amazon Rainforest....

[–] innermeerkat@jlai.lu 18 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

The Amazon rainforest is often considered the lungs of the planet. It represents only a small part, the lungs are mainly our oceans.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

We can't even take care of that, how could we care for an Yggdrasil?

[–] sawdustprophet@midwest.social 11 points 2 weeks ago

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"

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