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The saying says: “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” It is very possible to do great harm, trying to do a lot of good.
In 2020, Apple announced “Apple 2030”; By 2030, a very ambitious goal of becoming 100% carbon. Although Apple has already been neutral carbon at a global corporate level, the company wants to become neutral carbon in all its business, production supply chain and product life cycles.
Unfortunately, the annual release cycle with several devices and now the desire to keep up in the race of artificial intelligence is completely counterproductive for this scale. While Apple did a normal work on an attempt to minimize the production of carbon in its operations, there is no way to completely eliminate it.
In the past, most large corporations relied on carbon loans to compensate for the carbon they developed. Carbon loans are “generated” from projects that either avoid or remove carbon from the environment.
for example, perhaps the company accepts the forest section to protect it from dehaliness. Maybe they invest in startups of renewable energy. The fact is that carbon loans are used to “compensate” the carbon that the company produces.
If the company produces 14.5 million metric tons of carbon per year, this company can & mdash; Theoretically & mdash; Buy 14.5 million carbon loans and become carbon neutral. But it is not so simple.
It is almost impossible to find out how many carbon project is deleted. That is why carbon loans are often carried out to the potion: a strategy intended to report that the company is environmentally friendly.
Many large companies switched to investment in eucalyptus farms in Brazil, hoping that a fast-growing tree can help solve many environmental problems, including carbon emissions.
Journalist in science and technology Gregori Barber went to Brazil to check these apple trees. His story in a MIT technology review is critical of this strategy.
This is good, if not long, read, I would advise you to check it if you are the person who finds such an interesting thing.
The theory is that if you plant enough trees, you can pick up enough carbon dioxide and write it inside the trees lignin. Ligin, in fact, is the muscle skeletal system of the plant, and it is most common in woody trees and MDash; Like eucalyptus.
planting eucalyptus forests in Brazil, a country that suffered from deforestation seems to be a logical solution. You just need to take large plots of land, which used to be forest and transplanted a fast -growing forest.
, of course, this is not an perfect solution. In truth, this simply cuts out an average person from an ecosystem of carbon loan. Ecologists have long been criticized by this decision.
Barber talked with Giseld Durigan, an ecologist at the Institute of Ecological Research of San Paulo, who very criticized this idea. Like many others, Durigan is worried that these farms are mainly a conceited project.
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“They use carbon discourse as another argument to say that the business is magnificent,” said Durigan. “They are happy that they are considered good guys.”
The first obvious problem is that eucalyptus is not native to Brazil or even in South America. This is born in Australia.
The introduction of non-native species always has significant drawbacks. Eucalypts is growing rapidly, a function that makes them good in capturing carbon dioxide.
However, the fast-growing is also not necessarily better. Quick -growing plants, as a rule, invade the region and suffocate from other species, although supposedly this is not so important in Brazil.
But its fast-growing nature means that the plant is necessarily eagerly. Eucalyptus was used as an effective strategy for monitoring the spread of malaria, since it is effective in depletion of marshy areas.
and there is also an argument that if you are planting a fast-growing plant, whether it is eucalyptus or bamboo, you can collect this, not local species, industrial use. You can use a bamboo for the manufacture of paper, toilet paper and textiles. Eucalyptus can be used for the manufacture of paper, flooring, furniture and MDash; Almost the same as any other type of wood.
, but this does not change the fact that eucalyptus is the only plant, and monocultures are often much more harmful than the problem that they hope to solve. The ecosystems are complex, so the solution will never be simple.
I have no answer to how to solve the problem; In truth, I'm not sure if he is. It just becomes obvious that they will not fix it.
people have a story for fakes in the environment to satisfy their own needs, and this often has less desirable results. Just as Henry Ford found out that the landing of rubber trees in Brazil was not a sufficient safe source of rubber, Apple could find that the eucalyptus planting in the same country cannot save the world.
