• @Delta_V
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    14 months ago

    Untrue.
    Just letting a forest grow wild is carbon neutral. The soil reaches a point of saturation. Eventually the dead trees get eaten by detritivores, releasing the captured carbon back into the air.
    Keeping it sequestered long term requires burying it deep - the trees would need to be cut down and transported to where bacteria, fungus, and so on can’t eat them.

    • @[email protected]
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      14 months ago
      • forest does not exist. Carbon is in atmosphere
      • forest grows, carbon is bound up in whatever lives in the forest
      • forest reaches steady state, carbon emitted by decomposition is balanced out by new growth

      It’s net negative as long as it exists. What I said is true.