Comment Re:Oh JFC no there wasn't (Score 1) 155
The flooding story actually predates the bible: https://www.thetorah.com/artic...
Floods were quite common a long time ago, and different cultures have various flood stories: https://www.pbs.org/independen...
In more recent decades we have been experiencing, especially in modernized countries, by the construction of dams. It is now very difficult, politically, to construct new dams, and artificial lakes, because they change the local ecology which can be very controversial. What we need is to adapt and improve our water management as a way to mitigate the impact of climate change.
On the original topic, I agree that 'planting trees', and other 'carbon neutral' schemes, is just virtue signaling and not the answer. Maybe if it were offset by a large factor such as 50x: you produce 1ton of carbon in the air, then you need to offset this with 50 tons of tree planting.