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Why would planting trees not work?
by duaneb 10y ago
Why would planting trees not work?
- amorphid 10y agoTrees die. Decomposing, or burning, gives off all the carbon they soaked up.
- reitanqild 10y agoThis can however take a decades or a few hundres years if not more. Around here they have found logs thousand of years old in the swamps.
- digler999 10y ago> in the swamps probably because theres not much O2 in the water compared to the atmosphere.
- jcoffland 10y agoThis is not true. Much carbon is left behind after burning or decomposition.
- ptaipale 10y agoCut the trees down, make paper out of it, print government regulations and statistics and reports on it, store these in a vault permanently. You have a carbon sink.
- htns 10y agoIt takes decades for those trees to grow to firewood size. In the meantime there will be carbon "in flight". Since the trees will be cut down and burned again, effectively replanting only reduces emissions by some fraction, dependent on the growth time. Burning wood, especially at your cabin, has a high emission rate, so an electric stove might be better, and fairly certainly is if powered by a solar panel.
- duaneb 10y agoSure. But for some number of trees planted, you WILL eventually displace the carbon.