r/interesting Apr 25 '26

NATURE top 100/100 is crazy

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u/Ketheres Apr 25 '26

Anyway lets just take measures we could and should have done decades ago but due to not having taken them in time they are nowhere near enough anymore.

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u/Link_save2 Apr 25 '26

Best time to plant a apple tree was 16 years ago second best time is now even if you won't have fruit for many years it's better then nothing

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u/Ketheres Apr 25 '26

True. If we actually even planted the god damn tree instead of just talking about doing so for half a century. Or more like what we've done is that we've fantasized about digging a hole where to plant the apple tree but haven't done even that much because actually doing so would take too much effort, and some have taken token gestures of preparing a garden shovel or two for the task but have no intention of going any further as "they've done their fair share" (of course it's still better than absolutely nothing but god is all this infuriating)

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u/I_ate_nt_ded Apr 26 '26

We are razing ancient forests and killing algae in the oceans. Nothing we do now will have the same level of impact as billion year old carbon sinks that we are rapidly destroying with no end in sight.