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Most plants have negative carbon-dioxide emissions. The trick is not cutting them down.
by ISL 9y ago
Most plants have negative carbon-dioxide emissions. The trick is not cutting them down.
- bitL 9y agoThe more CO2 is in atmosphere, the sweeter and less mineral-rich plants become, becoming less beneficial to poisonous to surrounding animals and insects.
- kbutler 9y agoDo you have a source for "poisonous"? The studies I've seen indicate that some grain crops may lose a bit of nutrient density (zinc, iron decreasing by 5-14%) while other crops are unaffected or may increase in nutrition. e.g., overview at https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/swelling-co2-cuts-nutrition-in-food/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/swelling-co2-cuts...
- eternauta3k 9y agoThe trick is to cut them down at the optimal point (some time before they stop growing) and replant. Then use the wood in a way which won't release the carbon back into the atmosphere: don't burn it or let it rot.
- londons_explore 9y agoStopping wood rotting for 20 years is doable. Stopping wood rotting for 1000 years is rather tricky. If you let the wood rot or burn, you're back to where you started.
- nnethercote 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochar
- hydrogen18 9y agoSink it all to the bottom of a cold freshwater lake?
- jaggederest 9y agoChemically speaking making trees inert is relatively simple, if you look at polylactic acid or rayon, there are a lot of polymers you can make out of cellulose that are practically non biodegradable (though humorously they are often labeled as biodegradable since they will degrade in specific conditions e.g. ground very finely and mixed with a large volume of other material in a high-temperature industrial digester).
- BurningFrog 9y agoCutting down trees and building permanent structures with the wood is a great way to take CO₂ out of the air.
- phs318u 9y ago“We had to destroy the village in order to save the village.“
- BurningFrog 9y agoThere is some misunderstanding here. Does it help if I point out that new trees grow up to replace the chopped down ones?
- EADGBE 9y agoThough I recently defended stick-frame homes in a comment, I've yet to encounter a "permanent [wood] structure".