Re:The Lost Art of Growing Blueberries with Fire
by mc32 on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @04:44PM
(#23837581)
So burning forests or seasonal burning like in Indonesia is carbon neutral from that perspective?
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:The Lost Art of Growing Blueberries with Fire
by cortesoft on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @04:53PM
(#23837699)
Seasonal burning probably is carbon neutral.
Burning forests, not so much (at least by standard definitions of carbon neutral). 'Carbon neutral' requires a reference frame; we usually mean from the perspective of the people doing the carbon releasing. If you burn a forest that you planted, you are carbon neutral. If you burn a forest that has been there for centuries, you are not carbon neutral.