A lot of people saying "plant more trees" don't realize the scale of our carbon output. We release about 43 billion tons of CO2 in a year. A forest fire releas

A lot of people saying "plant more trees" don't realize the scale of our carbon output. We release about 43 billion tons of CO2 in a year. A forest fire releases about 5-30 tons of CO2 per hectare. We're burning the equivalent of a forest the size of Africa every year.