posted on Mar, 21 2013 @ 02:44 AM
Originally posted by KaiserSoze
Originally posted by SteveR
Never seen anything like it. Amazing.
However, unlike sowing grass seeds, planting trees requires some forethought. How are they going to ensure the correct spacing?
They all come with tiny tape-measures and are taught how to measure the proper distance between themselves, you know, just like they do in nature.
lol it's as if people here think think nature is incapable of working without careful human interference.
Yes... if we want to grow crops for food we need to make sure the seeds are planted at the correct depth in the soil and the correct distance from
each other, the soil needs to be properly fertilized and turned, and the plants require constant irrigation. Otherwise we will have a low yield of low
However this isn't a damn plan to grow some crops for food is it... it's a plan to regrow large forest areas by dispersing large amounts of seeds
over a large area. Of course many seeds will fail to sprout, but many will grow... one of the main ways seeds are dispersed in nature is through bird
crap, because birds eat a lot of seedy fruits.
No one making sure the seeds are planted properly, and no one constantly waters the plants. Only the toughest plants who can make it in the wild will
survive, that is how evolution works. Anything which requires constant oversight is not fit for survival in the wild. Most GMO seeds cannot survive in
the wild because their reproductive functions have been removed.
They do this so farmers constantly need to purchase new seeds instead of just using the seeds from previous crops. It's unlikely they would use GMO
seeds for this plan but they may use seeds which have been modified to resist a larger number of diseases and fungi. I think it's a brilliant idea
personally and it should have been done earlier.
The trees and plants are responsible for supplying much of the oxygen we breath.