I planted a giant sequoia tree to offset the carbon footprint of my whole life
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- I planted a giant sequoia to offset the carbon footprint of my life
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It looks really awkward to plant them in straight rows like that
I respectfully disagree, you can make a cool tree house....100yrs from now lol.
I really like giant sequoias, I don't have a place to plant one in the ground but I bought a 45Litre pot and planted a 1 year old seedling into it and it was struggling the first year in the pot but its nice and healthy after 2 years with me so its 3 years old now.
I'm planting seven on my farm in WV this year.
Love that! Been looking at homes in Wheeling WV lately.
The giant sequoias have survived thousands of years of fires and droughts in the sierras. Lol
people have never been so destructive to nature than in the last 100 years
I plan to plant many trees when I get my property
I've been raising40 babies three years .they get. Planted this year
How does it help if when trees die they are decomposed releasing the carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere?
Sequoias live for at the least hundreds of years (in America they're 2-3k). By then we'll have solved the problem, or not, in which case it won't matter
It goes in the ground not in the atmosphere
It captures CO2 for 3,000 yrs before releasing it anywhere. During its lifetime the neighbouring soil will hold 3 times more CO2.
Just got two...Puget Sound.
good they are trying to save the giant sequoia, I think they like the UK weather
Thanks 👍
WONDERFUL!
They are gonna rise higher and higher long after we will be gone👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Plant one for me, mate.
Anyone know the pricing? I looked on thier website and could find no information on cost.
Dunno about the actual numbers of carbon footprint which is kinda silly measurement anyway. However, I love trees and these giants should get help to survive if Americans cannot do enough.🌲🌳
They only grow in ONE state in the U.S. …
They grow all around the world... But its in California that they thrive mostly yes.
Nope, they are grown in many states in the US. Just native to Cali. Big ones in oregon and WA
What you said is true!! It's very, very important to make sure native trees stay in their native ranges, especially something as huge and impacting as sequoia trees. There is always too much of a good thing, and this, with its massive size and shade it brings, would completely change the ecosystem surrounding it. All it would take is 1 tree, many people underestimate the impact.
Only if whole plant mass will be fossilized
If you're going to plant a forest don't plant the trees all in straight lines like a grid. That will never look natural, it will always be obviously a planted forest.
i dont think it matters it will look beautiful too
But these tree don't support the native insect species or native animals, don't think this is the solution for the UK, better plant native to the UK species and plant the giant sequoias in their native habitats and countries
This sounds great but isn’t it better to plant an indigenous tree?
This is an invader species even though it’s an amazing tree. And might have some other impact or problem later on that is not yet understood?
Just wondering.
The Giant Sequoia is not an invasive species. Very far from it actualy as it takes many years for it to drop seeds, and these seeds have an extremely low succes rate to grow.
@@markschrama7218 Another interesting fact is that a sequoia tree seed cone needs a wildfire to release its seeds. This means that native trees have gone long before sequoias seedlings got germinated
I love Giant Sequoias, and have seen some remarkable individuals in both Ireland and the UK. I've visited the groves of the giants in the Sequoia National Park in California. I'm all for planting lots and lots, anyplace they will thrive and not muscle-out indigenous species. All that said, this 'project', or at least its presentation, really hangs on the edge of superficiality and over simplification.
Just starting with the vagueness of its carbon footprint assertion: No way that sprout will compensate for even the carbon resources expended to grow it o its planting size. At what point in its development would it have come even with, and begin to compensate for, ongoing personal carbon impacts? 20 years? 50?
Organic chemistry has left the chat.
thunderf00t got some more busting to do.
There are 100+ year old giant sequoias in Kew Gardens which is on the outskirts of London. They are very big and doing fine. There are now more Redwoods in the UK than in California though they are obviously much younger.
The life span of these trees is thousands of years and they grow to be massive. Why wouldn't they offset the CO2 emissions of a human life that is on average 72 years?
@@nathanlewis42 your whole life carbon emissions are much, much more than a single giant sequoia. And we need the CO2 out of the atmosphere now, not a few centuries from now. And when the tree eventually dies (20 years on average in urban settings), all that carbon is going to be broken down and end up right back in the atmosphere.
@@ElectricityTaster have you done the calculations??? While I agree 100% about the need for getting the carbon out now the most effective way to achieve that by far is to not emit it in the first place. I am sure you will therefore stop eating meat, flying in planes and driving a car immediately.
@@nathanlewis42 yes. I also recycle my coca cola cans and my McDonald veggie burger wrappers.
Ive been telling folks that the best way to combat carbon (if you believe that stuff) is plant sequoias and faster growing trees.
I don’t subscribe to that ideology but still grow these trees for future generations. Having walked among wild groves of sequoias in person,
they are a wonder of the world that needs to be perpetuated with care.
Hmm, also, is it just me, or ppl might get complacent?, as in, 'Oh well now when I've planted SUCH a tree, I don't need to try as hard to try and reduce my carbon footprint... the rest of my life'🤔
To balance my carbon foot print i flush the toilet twice just for these people
Reality check: there are approximately 3,000,000,000,000 trees in the world. That’s roughly 400 trees per person. These capture about 25 percent of the total CO2 emissions. Therefore, 1600 trees per person are needed. The average Brit emits about twice the world average, so a Brit needs approximately 3200 trees. If the sequoia absorbs 10 times the average, you would need about 320 sequoias per brit.
What about the Red Wood. The live one thousand and five hundred more years than the Sequoia. That the Sequoia live two thousand years were the Red Wood livea three thousand and five hundred years. As for size at the bottom they are more fat the Sequoia but the Red Wood is the most tallest in the world and for wood they take up more. Also the Red Wood is fire resistant one it gets big .
Spot On ! 🌲
this is a joke
Grow up! Monoculture, one single thing, is not the answer
Giant sequoias are native to California. I'm not sure it's wise to plant them in the UK out of their natural habitat.
Yup it’s very dumb
they are almost extinct in the wild I think its a good idea, nothing is native to the UK in was under 2 miles of ice 15000 years ago
Previous to the last Ice age these trees were found all ove rNorth America and Europe. Europe was their original habitat previous to the last ice age,
@@blakespower They are not going extinct. There are hundreds of thousands of them in 3 states, California, Oregon and Washington, with thousands being planted every year in many states. Soon there will be millions of them in the United States.
@@thedude5599 False!
"Carbon Footprint"...😂
Just plant them and shut up about the carbon footprint. I appreciate nature to the highest degree without virtue signaling. I’ve planted more trees than I can even remember. One of the best things of my life is not telling everyone about it. How many people have you told this story to? Sometimes the best action is shutting your mouth about it afterwards.
Millions upon millions of trees are planted by the timber industry every year. Young, vigorous, growing carbon sinks that will sequester that carbon into lumber, not a rotting dying carbon producing tree.
One giant sequoia tree offsets the carbon footprint of an entire life?? BS
The life of these trees is thousands of years and they grow to be massive. Why wouldn't they offset the CO2 emissions of a human life that is on average 72 years?
He’ll do more damage way before the tree even starts to grow. Sounds nice but yeah….
They're just going to fall over and become coal. Carbon is carbon. The laws of thermodynamics are very clear :)
People in the future may need coal.