The real Yggdrasil was the forests we cut along the way
this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2024
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That’s just planting trees with extra steps.
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"
Fortunately we're also destroying the oceans
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.
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.
This is Yggdrasilly.
Yggdiculous
Pretty sure that's what forestation is all about.
That wpuld be cool but ineffective and solve none of the systemic issues.
You mean a giant 2 mile tall 600 yard thick tree in the middle of the Atlantic wouldn't solve racism??
If that's the case I don't even know what COULD solve racism...
Now hold on, maybe if the tree was trained to be as anti-racist as possible...
Yes. It must take a bi-annual sensitivity training and a yearly aptitude test. Truly you are a genius.
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.
Does it have to be a giant tree tho? There are floating machines cleaning plastics out of the ocean right now. One of them I'm pretty sure was conceived by a high school student for a science project, and it worked so well somebody built it. Good shower thought tho.
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.
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
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
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
Humans would do literally anything before lowering their standard of life
House of Leaves reference?