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baroness
@baroness

I'm doing a lot of research into environmental restoration for a Thing and people, I'm turning into a a Tree Truther: as in, we can solve so many of our current and future problems by planting more trees.

So first: carbon capture. Wood/timber is an excellent carbon capture method. Carbon releases from deterioration is negligible, like only ~3%. It's far more efficient and safer (!!) than any artificial carbon capture solutions people are coming up with.

(Unfortunately some people are trying to convince that burning wood is carbon neutral and that therefore we should turn all coal fueled power plants into wood fueled instead ohgodmakethemstop)

But the thing that amazed me the most is how large areas of forest influence other far more distant systems. I'm talking about the Amazon rain forest controlling how much rain Texas gets (no Amazonia, no rain). Or middle Africa controlling Europe's rainfall (again, no central African forests, climate in Europe gets fubar'ed)

Like, for me, this is lovecraftian knowledge: Absolutely madness inducing how vast our ecosystem really is and how just having more trees could solve so many issues. So, trees it is.


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