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‘Not always’. Sure, trees are enduring, nice to look at, make things cooler and might help with carbon dioxide. Let’s plant them anyway.

• baryphonic 4y ago
  I found the arguments in the article rather weak. One was that trees die. True enough. But if you plant 100 trees and 10 die within ten years, that's still quite a bit of CO2 converted into O2. It may not scale so well, sure. But as far as I can tell, neither do wind & solar. Doesn't mean we shouldn't try to make the best use of them.
  • soperj 4y ago
    Nearly all the trees we plant are planted to cut down eventually.
    • quixoticelixer- 4y ago
      Even so you still have 30-100 years of carbon sequestration.
  • Floegipoky 4y ago
    And for those that die, something else will grow. I found myself thinking "they're literally missing the forest for the trees".