kind of funny given what a stink everyone made about forgiving student loans being an upper middle class subsidy that the climate provisions are very explicitly a subsidy on upper middle class homeowners.
kind of funny given what a stink everyone made about forgiving student loans being an upper middle class subsidy that the climate provisions are very explicitly a subsidy on upper middle class homeowners.
To clarify, we would need to replant massive amounts of trees and then maintain that amount of trees indefinitely to keep the carbon captured. There's only so many trees you can plant.
Eventually some carbon from dead trees would be fixed as coal I suppose, but now you are talking thousands or millions of years.
can that even happen on any significant scale now that stuff's better at breaking down wood
not really, no. maybe if we intentionally bury it?
We'd need to dump them into the ocean or something where they'd petrify. That would cause all sorts of untold knock on effects on the deep sea ecosystem though.
We also have that little issue with algae blooms disappearing and the main oxygen engines of the planet failing.
You can pyrolyse the wood into charcoal, which is porous and mostly biochemically stable, so if you put that in the soil it will increase (ionic) nutrient adsorption and water retention, assist lots of organisms, and remain in the soil as elemental carbon for centuries if not millennia.
Charcoal burns at a hotter temperature than wood. So, you can have a Combined Heat and Power stove/engine, or a combined heat/char, or a combined power/char. As long as you're planting more trees than you use for fuel, and putting some char into the soil, you're doing a net sequestration of carbon. It's not fast or flashy, but it does work very reliably.
yeah + in well-established forests, the CO2 that's emitted ends up captured again by the plants growing in it. when the capitalists plant forests, they only plant the trees so it takes a while before the rest of the biodiversity is restored to the artificial forests and the same effect takes hold. we don't need to plant trees; we need to replant the forests. and that means restoring the plant AND animal life that used to live in them. unbalanced and artificial ecosystems just create new problems if they cannot sustain themselves.