Most trees planted in the world are already cut down too young, while they're still net carbon sinks. A tree planted right now is going to absorb carbon for at

Most trees planted in the world are already cut down too young, while they're still net carbon sinks. A tree planted right now is going to absorb carbon for at least a hundred years. And most timber is used in ways that releases all the stored carbon much sooner than it would happen in a natural forest. Basically the only reasonably sustainable ways to use timber is to either build something lasting out of it or bury it underground.