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Re:Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per ... by lostlogin on Friday August 02, 2019 @02:58PM (#20595610)
There is a guy here who cuts them down and regrows them from the stumps, selling the timber and feeding stock with the leaves and small branches. Presumably this increases the carbon capture.

https://thisnzlife.co.nz/how-a-small-waikato-farm-harnesses-...

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Re:Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per ... by quixoticelixer- on Friday August 02, 2019 @06:48PM (#20597304)
Ironically the stored CO2 destroyed the 'civilisation' that fixed it in the first place
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