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Re:$100M xPrize for Carbon Removal by Dylan16807 on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @05:50PM (#27826714)
It's true that there are "other cooling dynamics".

But most of those don't involve trees. And "reducing certain industrial practices" has nothing to do with trees.

So I don't really understand your point. It's correct that we shouldn't be too reductionist, but even if we avoid reductionism it's still correct to say that plants and trees won't do the job, and is not "missing the entire point of regenerative methods".

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Re:$100M xPrize for Carbon Removal by burgessaccount on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @06:12PM (#27826919)
Trees actually can provide tremendous cooling dynamics, beyond CO2 absorption. They provide shade at ground level. If every house in the US were surrounded by trees instead of useless lawns, energy use for both heating and cooling would be lower, so you’d get emissions reductions AND carbon absorption.
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Re:$100M xPrize for Carbon Removal by RosanaAnaDana on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @10:24PM (#27828868)
Also through evapotranspiration.

Tree effectively swampcoolers.

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