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Yes but planting trees and turning it to lumber is an excellent way to sequester carbon.

• rolandog 4y ago
  Oh, agreed. I just wanted to make an analogy about groups that have, in theory, competing interests but can in some cases have common goals.
• orangepurple 4y ago
  Trees are not 100% carbon. Logging worsens soil conditions when no effort is made to preserve it. "Just keep planting lol" is not sustainable. Algae sequester carbon better.
  • jandrese 4y ago
    What logging does is create an economic incentive to plant the trees and let them grow. The problem with algae is that it doesn't have economic value currently. People dream about turning it into food or biofuels but that's not currently viable. Although if you were only interested in sequestering carbon (which currently has close to 0 economic incentive) you could grow algae, filter them out of the water, and then pump them deep underground into old gas/oil wells. It's still a lot of energy but possibly more viable than most carbon capture proposals. Over millions of years that algae will probably turn back into coal/oil. Also, farming algae in natural waterways tends to have its own environmental impacts.