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Planting a forest is carbon neutral after it reaches maturity, in a ~few years. It reaches an equilibrium and stops net removal of CO2. If you want nature to d
by kadoban 3y ago
Planting a forest is carbon neutral after it reaches maturity, in a ~few years. It reaches an equilibrium and stops net removal of CO2.
If you want nature to do it you need to engineer some way for the carbon to disappear basically forever.
- chongli 3y agoYou missed the last stages in the cycle: cut down the trees, build stuff with the wood, and plant new trees. If you can use the wood as a construction material that lasts a long time then you’ve succeeded at carbon sequestration.
- kadoban 3y agoBuilding things is already happening. You're not going to affect that really at all by planting more trees, that's a big complex system.