[notabee]

Trees require arable land. Trees require water and nutrients. Trees that aren't turned into treated lumber (to prevent decomposing) or buried return the carbon to the system when they die. Most interventions to plant them, water them, fertilize them, or store them at the end will use additional carbon-based energy and negate the benefit. They typically take 10 or 20 years to grow to consume the promised amount of carbon.

Trees are great, but they will not solve the climate issue alone and the notion that they can needs to be put away so that we can plan realistically.