Shell boss says mass reforestation needed to limit temperature rises to 1.5C

Flagged-to-death comment notwithstanding, I do wonder of the motivation. He is certainly stating the obvious in that he's just parroting what the recent report is saying, minus the "fossil fuels have to go way" part. On the other hand, what he said doesn't mean anything at all, because he didn't follow up with, "therefore, starting today, we are instituting a new, multi-billion dollar reforestation program..."

So I guess I'm kinda thinking I ought to go vouch that dead comment.

Pony up the bucks, Shell and their ilk externalized and dumped environmental costs on society and the planet for a century.

They should be paying for whatever active geoengineering can be done. All executives current and former should have 75% of their net worth taxed.

A 200% gasoline tax should be imposed. Think that is too much? Do napkin calculations on the cost to remove the CO2 that results from burning a gallon of gasoline.

Sprawl property taxes should be immediately instituted.

Massive government research should be initiated in wind, solar, battery, thorium reactors, lab-grown meat, vertical farming, bio/algal fuels, and space mining.

I won't hold my breath.

Thank you Captain Obvious... maybe since so much of oil & gas companies' income is from a product that is the direct and chief contributor to global climate change, and (in the US at least) so much political inertia has been created in climate denialism by "research" they've "sponsored" over the last 40 years, maybe these companies ought to be leading the charge on exactly that reforestation.

How feasible is something like this? I think we'd have a hard time telling a country to tear down farms and other developed land to let it return to rain forest.