> It's not like the carbon is going back into the atmosphere, at least not without some process like combustion. Western USA has had a "fire season" for every

> It's not like the carbon is going back into the atmosphere, at least not without some process like combustion. Western USA has had a "fire season" for every year for the last like 4 years. Last year, other places like Brazil and Africa join in on the fun. So planting trees without a robust animal/insect ecosystem to decompose them before they combust is an incomplete solution.