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My favorite form of carbon capture is building habitat for organisms. Then you are increasing the carrying capacity of the planet for life, which also stores ca
by lukas099 3y ago
My favorite form of carbon capture is building habitat for organisms. Then you are increasing the carrying capacity of the planet for life, which also stores carbon. And you are addressing the extinction event.
- Jeff_Brown 3y agoLife usually sequesters carbon only until it rots. An implication of this is that maintaining the Amazon is good for us, not because it captures more carbon -- it's biomass is not on net growing -- but because if we cut it down its biomass shrinks (because it goes into the air).
- lukas099 3y agoIf you are building new habitat you can lock up carbon permanently by creating a self-replenishing ecosystem. This can be jump-started with dead organic matter but will eventually become a living system.