You have to cut down the trees at maturity and preserve them and re plant in ord...

dicroce on April 19, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: How much can forests fight climate change?

You have to cut down the trees at maturity and preserve them and re plant in order to actually reduce carbon in the atmosphere. We should probably be doing this (as long as we're careful not release more co2 than we capture doing all this)... But we should also be putting government money behind scaling climeworks and other direct carbon capture tech... We should also be seriously studying other more drastic measures.

Consultant32452 on April 19, 2019 [–]

Increasing the total biomass of trees also reduces atmospheric CO2, even if you just let the natural cycle of life go on.