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US Republicans want to plant a trillion trees. Scientists are skeptical. New research casts doubt on the climate strategy pushed by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and other GOP leaders (www.msn.com)
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Assuredly it will be done with little oversight, managed by a shell corporation ran be a close constituent that is over charging per a tree and will never be completed.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The problem is that even if it was "done right" it would:

  • Require three times the land area of India
  • Be a partial solution, and not the kind of complete solution that the Republicans are trying to claim it as
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly this. Impractical answers are what they live off, because it lets them stall. It’s depressing there’s no solutions apart from “keep doing dumb shit for money” on their wheel of choices.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It let's them stall and line their pockets while being able to say government doesn't work and everything should be privatized

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is the only way this makes sense. It's def gonna be a situation where $millions+ disappear, they never plant the trees, and everyone forgets this was ever promised.

We'll point to this as an example of why we can't trust Republicans, and they'll just come back with something about Clinton's BJ