> No amount of growing forests is going to fix this issue without being able to turn those forests into carbon that's in the ground. We need to get carbon out of the carbon cycle. The natural life of plants doesn't do that.

Taking (sustainably harvested) wood from old trees which are close to dying anyway and using this wood to build durable (lasting decades) houses would be helpful. This would channel carbon from the natural cycle into an artificial reservoir made up of buildings.

Questions left unanswered:

- would this reservoir be big enough?

- is the rate of carbon fixation sufficient?