[amorphid]

Trees die. Decomposing, or burning, gives off all the carbon they soaked up.

[ptaipale]

Cut the trees down, make paper out of it, print government regulations and statistics and reports on it, store these in a vault permanently. You have a carbon sink.

[verbify]

That sounds like it was a submission for shithackernewssays.

[babuskov]

That comment just made my day :)

[jcoffland]

This is not true. Much carbon is left behind after burning or decomposition.

[reitanqild]

This can however take a decades or a few hundres years if not more. Around here they have found logs thousand of years old in the swamps.

[digler999]

> in the swamps

probably because theres not much O2 in the water compared to the atmosphere.