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• Nairn3

  Plant trees — lots of them, for not a lot of money — save world.

  https://www.theguardian.com/envi…

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  • Inventing the wheel again...OBBTKN
  • amen to the ideamonospaced
  • Except that it's not really how that works: https://arstechnica.…zarkonite
  • Except it depends entirely on what you do with the wood. Bury it, sink it in the ocean, turn it into chardust, use that to improve soil generate energy... etcNairn
  • Even just planting trees where there were none beforehand sets up cyclical ecosystems that sequester carbon beyond the initial growth period.Nairn
  • The point of <that article is more that just growing wood is a cheap short-term solution that outdoes more technologically- involving solutions.Nairn
  • heck, we're now developing means to build skyscrapers with 'tech' wood = long-term carbon sequestration and a reduction in high emission concretesNairn
  • The point is that the research that says planting trees will reduce free carbon is flawed and forests, unintuitively enough, are not good carbon sinks.zarkonite

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