IKEA buys 11,000 acres of U.S. forest to keep it from being developed

Re:IKEA buys 11,000 acres of U.S. forest to keep it from bei... by StillBored on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @01:12PM (#25931634)

I think the point is that after it dies frequently it will release all the stored carbon back into the atmosphere. In the case of turning the tree into furniture its really what happens at the end of the furniture's life. If it ends up buried in a landfill then the carbon is probably sequestered for a few hundred years, but if it ends up going through an incinerator for electricity/etc generation then its not actually offsetting long term.

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Re:IKEA buys 11,000 acres of U.S. forest to keep it from bei... by alacombe on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @03:17PM (#25933350)

> I think the point is that after it dies frequently it will release all the stored carbon back into the atmosphere

Only if it burns, dead tree are generally eaten away over decades by insects, fungus and birds.

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Re:IKEA buys 11,000 acres of U.S. forest to keep it from bei... by StillBored on Thursday January 28, 2021 @04:02PM (#25949152)

Rotting, as its known, is just the tree being metabolized by other living organisms. That process is the same as burning except in that the energy is used by the organism. The net result being the carbon being turned into C02 same as burning.

AKA, whether you burn it, or leave it in the environment to rot/compost/etc the carbon eventually turns back into C02. In order for trees to be a carbon sink they have to be sequestered in an O2 free environment forever. AKA, they need to be feedstock for the oil the cockroaches are going to use to build their civilization in a 100M years.

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