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Re:Red seaweed supplementation reduces enteric methane by ov... by 8note on Monday March 22, 2021 @04:38PM (#26546624)
How relevant is deforestation to our shared atmosphere though?

Forests are largely steady state. They're carbon sinks when you go from no forest to forest, but not just keeping the forest around

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Re:Red seaweed supplementation reduces enteric methane by ov... by samuelbalogh on Monday March 22, 2021 @04:47PM (#26546761)
I think that in the systemic terminology, a mature forest is a carbon "stock". Deforestation means getting rid of that stock and putting all of its CO2 into the atmostphere by burning it. Unless you use all that wood for something else (buildings or whatever) which is possible but I think it's unlikely. I might be wrong though!
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