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Yes, that's why planting trees to offset carbon emissions is not really as good an idea as it seems, trees can live a long time but they're not immortal, and wh
by ajnin 5y ago
Yes, that's why planting trees to offset carbon emissions is not really as good an idea as it seems, trees can live a long time but they're not immortal, and when they die they release their carbon back into the environment.
- robotresearcher 5y agoIf you leave them alone to make baby trees, they can be an amortized constant capture or better. Meanwhile they liberate oxygen, which I enjoy daily.
- pxndx 5y agoIf you turn what now is barren land or grasslands into a forest, it absorbs CO2 as it grows, and that CO2 stays captured for as long as that land is a forest, it doesn't matter if individual trees die and decompose.