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Trees don't remove much CO2 in the long term because once they die they release all their CO2 back as they decompose.
by pertymcpert 2y ago
Trees don't remove much CO2 in the long term because once they die they release all their CO2 back as they decompose.
- mrkeen 2y agoThis is true, but I don't think it's that big of a problem, by simple thought experiment: Trees also don't exist in the long term, for the same reason. Once they die, they're not there. Given that forests exist, I think that CO2 can actually be stored there.
- glial 2y agoA forest has more sequestered CO2 than a field, probably. Individual trees die and decompose but new trees replace them.
- octokatt 2y agoA single tree won't, but a forest (aka, a system of trees growing and dying, to be replaced by more trees), will sequester CO2 meaningfully better than an open field. You're missing the forest for the trees, my dude.
- pertymcpert 2y agoBetter than an open field yes. How long does it take to burn down a forest? The amount of carbon stored in a forest compared to what we're pumping out from under the ground which has formed over millions of years is laughable. Find your own forest, my dude.
- hulitu 2y agoThen maybe we shall keep the man with an axe away from them.