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The original was posted on /r/collapse by /u/Ok_Canary_7401 on 2023-10-07 02:37:42.

supposedly 1.9B trees are planted per year

Canada is home to 30% of the worlds forest, about 320B trees

The 2023 wildfires have burned 5% of forest (and rural towns/small cities, but not included here)

5% of 320B trees is 16B trees

16B trees burned / 1.9B planted per year = 8.4 years worth of planted trees burned

by the way, it cost around 26c to plant a tree these days in British Columbia.

so at 1.9B about 500MM is spent planting trees each year, globally.

meanwhile forest fire budgets across Canada have been slashed

I wonder if instead of planting trees, there’s a way to fund forest firefighters instead. Might save more trees than we could ever hope to plant