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It's little appreciated since tree growth still consumes CO2
by OsrsNeedsf2P 10mo ago
It's little appreciated since tree growth still consumes CO2
- adregan 10mo agoI suppose I’m pointing it out to highlight the trade offs with any of these solutions. What is unsaid is that we need to sequester CO2 for hundreds of years—often far beyond the lifespan of the trees. Trees are short term storage, and sometimes the storage is a lot shorter than popular imagination purports.
- thinkcontext 10mo agoIndividual trees are short term storage which is why its important to create healthy ecosystems for them to live in. Turning denuded farmland back into a forest buffers carbon from the atmosphere for as long as the forest stands. It could stay there for centuries or return to the atmosphere if it gets bulldozed for a subdivision.