I’m sure we’ve got the technology somewhere. We just need like a giant fucking tree to suck the carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and to desalinate the oceans. Something that’s the size of an island all by itself.
I don’t care if it’s 100 billion trees woven together with some science fuckery, but we need an Yggsrasil if we want to fix the planet.
Think about it. A giant tree out in the middle of the ocean that sucks up all of our carbon dioxide and turns it into more trees and that sucks the salts and minerals and plastics out of the ocean and incorporates those into itself until it grows as tall as 100 billion trees woven together with dark science can possibly grow.
Sure, it’ll cost I don’t know several billion dollars to make this happen a trillion I don’t fucking know, but if we had that the world would get better.
The real Yggdrasil was the forests we cut along the way
We had the Amazon Rainforest…
The Amazon rainforest is often considered the lungs of the planet. It represents only a small part, the lungs are mainly our oceans.
We can’t even take care of that, how could we care for an Yggdrasil?
square-cube law means height, diameter, and weight are all going to be issues.
Isn’t algae more effective per volume?
Aren’t you forgetting to factor the square of the magnitude of the raw fucking radness though
Yes. Algae would be much better. Just don’t mess up the oceans, and the algae will do their job.
Algae is the easiest and most likely to work.
We did experiments with iron seeding, the technology isn’t too far, it’s basically how the planet used to regulate before us.
That’s just planting trees with extra steps.
Was thinking the title was about the Linux distro and was like we can do that. but after reading this ocean algae is way beter for carbon capture than trees. They also don’t tend to burn down and release that carbon.
I thought that OP’s title was mentioning Yggdrasil as in the IPv6 P2P network.
Neat
The closest realization of this idea is to potentially cultivate/modify the gene pool and DNA of a tree probably with the use of CRISPR and selective breeding
Pretty sure that’s what forestation is all about.
I thought you were talking about network
I thought you were talking about the VR game in Overlord and was ready to post my support but you just want complicated forestry with no regards to marine life
House of Leaves reference?