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Trees are great for carbon capture.

• BurningFrog 2y ago
  They take up a lot of space at scale though.
  • salynchnew 2y ago
    Most tree planting efforts fail, as they ignore a lot of implementation/maintenance details and result in lots of dead trees. Mass tree planting is like doing a massive, massive migration. You can't just stick seedlings in the ground arbitrarily and expect a stand of trees to sustain itself 'cause "nature"... the successful processes like the Miyawaki method require planning, community investment, sustained work for ~5 years, etc. https://daily.jstor.org/the-miyawaki-method-a-better-way-to-build-forests/ https://daily.jstor.org/the-miyawaki-method-a-better-way-to-...
    • BurningFrog 2y ago
      Planting is just the first step as I see it. After the trees have grown, you need to harvest them and - somehow - make sure they don't rot and return the CO2 to the atmosphere. Finding space for that is what I mean by "take up space at scale".