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mostly just a glimpse of that talk, perhaps better suited is the one about programming he gave at Dropbox. In my opinion quite more in-line with what's being said.

Working on a system to automatically get your data using the GDPR law - which usually is a pain. And then trying to make it usable. I have a good use case of n=1 and growing. Last week I got a few people using it.

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Also, experimented with 3d printing visors and changing the designs.

The point I was trying to make is not that it's exclusive and hence why I reiterated I'm not against planting trees. Or trees in general, in any case I like them quite a lot as I come form the countryside and miss the forest and mountains a lot.

One of the points I was trying to converge is on the danger these types of articles pose and is they are delusional. It makes society think oh well, that's a big problem but we have a readily available solution, just plant more trees and all is solved.

The other is on one of the statements which is dubious.

I do a lot of work on this area hence why I'm saying all of the above and that's what I found when speaking with general public. And also with people with `high educational degrees` which (in theory) take things more critically and think them through.

That's quite absurd. Planting 1T trees would be extremely nice to the environment yet we fail to see the big picture. In oceans we have less than half of the phytoplankton than we used to have only a century ago[1].

""The amount of carbon that we can restore if we plant 1.2 trillion trees, or at least allow those trees to grow, would be way higher than the next best climate change solution," Crowther told CNN."

Phytoplankton actually contributes more than trees do to tackle the big construct of "climate change".[2]

In the article, all the climate change action is taken against the CO2 levels in the atmosphere - but I think we can all agree there is more to it than just CO2 (and we can go quite deep on that rabbit hole and slash apart lots of this big amorphous mass of a construct).

On top of that, there are quite some theories on what drives climate change [3] and different views on it [4]. Yet all mediums speak from the same theory which is CO2 is bad. Period.

Now, as said before on a comment by Krageon and Arbalest, it will be the comparable to a person planting 129 trees.

Don't get me wrong I love trees, forest and all that - no question that's beautiful and has more profound effects than climate change alone in our environment and society - but one gets fed up by the `simplicity` we think as a society of these problems.

I guess this is my personal opinion but I think we can do better with technology (which is why we are all in this community anyway) than that. And, again in my opinion, should be the way we lead and liaise with this problem instead of `go plant more trees`.

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-study-shows-oceani...

[2]https://novapublishers.com/shop/phytoplankton-biology-classi...

[3]http://climatica.org.uk/climate-science-information/long-ter...

[4] https://www.bettermeetsreality.com/a-history-of-earths-carbo...

Hi Rahul, sounds good to me! What time zone are you in? I'm available today from 19 p.m. onwards, London time.