How many trees would you need to plant in order to become carbon-neutral?

How many trees YOU would need to plant to personally become "carbon neutral" depends on how much electricity you use, how often you drive, how often you fly in airplanes, etc. I don't believe that this is one of the best ways to offset global warming. Many things can happen to a tree before it reaches an age in which it absorbed enough carbon dioxide to offset anything. It can be cut down intentionally, a storm can know it down. Planting a tree is a nice idea, but in the long run it doesn't get us anywhere.

I don't have the figures right in front of me, but I think each person would have to plant 1000s of trees to make up for all of the carbon released into the air by each of us (especially those of us who live in the U.S.). Remember, the fossil fuels we are using in huge volumes took about 300 million years of the earth being pretty much covered with vegitation to absorb and store all of the carbon that has been buried and is now our oil and coal, etc. We are using what took 300 million years to store in about 500 years. Your heart is in the right place to want to plant trees, but we can't plant enough. We have to find other sources of energy before it is too late (if it's not too late already) Edit: Don't forget in your calculations that it is 42 trees every year of a person's life. 42 trees x 80 years is 3,360.