Reforestation

The painting at the left is by my favorite living artist, Maurizio Rega, of Cava Dei Tirreni, in Campania, southern Italy, near Naples.  As you check out his work, you’ll note that he does a lot of trees.

Reforestation is an important strategy in climate change mitigation, as green plants absorb carbon throughout their lives.

Unfortunately, they almost always dispense it back into the atmosphere when they die, whether in fires, decomposition, or eaten as food, but it’s still good to capture that carbon, albeit for a finite period of time, while our civilization develops new and better technologies for achieving this purpose.