But in a 2017 study, researchers at the Potsdam Institute and the University of Exeter advised that planting more trees will not be a panacea to keep the average global temperature rise below 2 C since the start of the Industrial Revolution.
But here’s the problem for Canadian voters: neither the federal Conservatives nor the federal Liberals appear interested in curtailing the production of fossil fuels for export to other countries.
But until the two politicians with the best chance of becoming prime minister recognize the reality of the production problem, future generations are probably doomed to living on a hellfire of a planet.
The world will invariably see increasing losses of human life due to heat waves and extreme weather events.
But one party—the Greens—is offering the most explicit promise when it comes to the production of fossil fuels.
“Since producing and burning fossil fuels is the largest source of emissions, we need to keep fossil fuels in the ground, and retool society to run on non-polluting, renewable energy sources,” the Greens say in their platform. “This is entirely possible, according to studies by the Stanford University researchers and the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project.”