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by wheelerof4te
945 days ago
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So, in addition to ignoring the very solution nature gave us, you argue that we must bury the dead plant matter because the CO2 will be released back into the atmosphere if we don't. You realize there are bacteria and insects that eat this matter and that it is used as a fertilizer? |
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The carbon being released when burning fossil fuels was previously stuck under ground due to various geological processes. Near as we can tell, over 10’s-100’s of millions of years and due to very disruptive (and relatively unique) geological processes.
Once released into the air again, it will keep cycling between plants and the atmosphere (increasing total average atmospheric co2) until something sticks it back under the ground.
That’s the problem.
Trees, photosynthesis, etc. only temporarily change things. Eventually all the living things rot, burn, or get eaten and digested, and it all ends up back up in the atmosphere again. If there are active/current geologic processes putting some of that carbon back underground where it can’t get back into the atmosphere, it appears to be small in effect and slow.
Everything we see appears to not be doing that. It’s easy to verify in most cases too. A forest permanently storing carbon would be sitting on hundreds of feet of it. it’s typically 3-6 ft at most.
That fossil carbon has to go back under ground or it will go back into the air sooner than later. And continue to be a problem long term.
And near as we can tell, those historic geological processes aren’t happening anymore, at least not at any scale we can rely on here, or timeline that helps us at all.