> pays farmers to plant trees on their land, but in some cases, they would clear a chunk of forest before putting seedlings in the ground.
Depending on the age of those trees and what they do with them (hopefully homes) that's good
Clear cutting is rarely a good forest management practice.
Does this count for global warming temps and everything else around it?
Obviously, if we decided to limit warming to 1.5C at all costs, an extremely effective solution would be detonating nuclear weapons or triggering volcanic eruptions to block sunlight, but it's also obvious that would have far-reaching consequences on the ecosystems, likely worse than global warming.
Generally, it applies when the stastic is used to judge many individuals, rather than a single entity.