[carapace]

Oh sure, and while we're dreaming, imagine that it's nanotech so it repairs itself automatically and can even make copies of itself.

Even if such a ridiculous "Star Trek" miracle device were possible to build with today's technology, it would just ruin the economy.

[SonOfLilit]

My educated environmentalist friends are complaining loudly about forest-planting programs the way they are implemented being pad for CO2 absorption (because they replace healthier ecologies) on top of being terrible for the local ecosystems. Ecology is _complex_.

[carapace]

Yeah, clear-cutting a forest and replacing it with e.g. a pine mono-culture is probably a net negative, eh?

I've heard of a method that revives native forests rapidly: https://daily.jstor.org/the-miyawaki-method-a-better-way-to-...