Planting trees will not end global warming because there's too much CO2 in the ...

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It was recently revealed that young trees can absorb carbon dioxide better than established tropical rainforests, which seemed to be a dose of good news in the battle against global warming. 

But studies have revealed that there is so much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that solely planting trees won't be enough to save humans. 

And that's because there just isn't enough space on earth to plant the amount of trees that would be required to make a real dent in our carbon emissions.  

It has been calculated that if we planted 1.7 billion acres of trees, we could remove 3 billion tons of atmospheric carbon a year, according to Business

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