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A garden actually isn't that great, it has limited CO2 storage capacity once it's in balance. Productive land, specially timber, is a good way of capturing CO2
by hcarvalhoalves 2y ago
A garden actually isn't that great, it has limited CO2 storage capacity once it's in balance.
Productive land, specially timber, is a good way of capturing CO2, because it will end up stored in products.
We tend to naively think we should reforest land and leave it there, and it can be good for other reasons, but is a poor strategy for carbon capture. We need to _aggressively_ go back to using timber and vegetable fibers as construction material, instead of concrete and steel that have an enormous carbon footprint.
- bitwize 2y agoAs someone New Orleans-adjacent, I totally support this and think timber use would be even better if we perfected techniques for strengthening wood through high pressure at construction scale. I for one would love to see wooden skyscrapers with the aesthetic of the movie Her that are as strong as their concrete-and-steel equivalents.
- hcarvalhoalves 2y agoCheck this out https://www.archdaily.com/1006779/timber-skyscrapers-a-low-carbon-typology-for-the-21st-century https://www.archdaily.com/1006779/timber-skyscrapers-a-low-c...