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Except it tooks millions of years to capture the amount of carbon we are releasing in decades, and much of that capture will not actually work in today's ecosys
by brazzy 3y ago
Except it tooks millions of years to capture the amount of carbon we are releasing in decades, and much of that capture will not actually work in today's ecosystems: all coal deposits were formed in the window of time between trees evolving the production of lignine and microbes evolving the ability to decompose it.