[samatman]

It's not quite that simple.

Forests, as we're seeing right now, burn. Global trade has made this worse by spreading various pathogens and invasive creatures around the planet.

Even the ones which don't burn reach a steady state (takes centuries, but gets close in decades), where rot releasing carbon and uptake into new growth balance out.

To really fix carbon with plants, we want to grow something fast and woody, char it, and bury the char. Doesn't have to be deep, in fact working it into topsoil is a pretty good solution.

This isn't anywhere close to sufficient, but it's necessary and we should be doing a lot of it.