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by adgjlsfhk1 1458 days ago
trees don't draw carbon in the long term. after a few hundred years they decay. also the earth is already near maximum tree capacity.
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Sounds like we need to cut the trees down, bury them deep underground and plant new ones.
They did, and kept it out of the atmosphere for hundreds of millions of years.
> also the earth is already near maximum tree capacity.

citation?