Re:Downsides to planting trillions of trees
by qayxc on Saturday October 02, 2021 @07:50AM
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A mature forest not only hosts diverse ecosystems, it also produces a beneficial local climate.
It's also a gross oversimplification to look at CO² balance by absorption by trees only. Floodplain forests, forested swampland and broad-leafed trees also store massive amounts of CO² even when the forest is mature.
But more importantly, mature and healthy forests offer a broad range of benefits beyond binding CO². Reducing the value of forests and the associated ecosystems to CO² is a flawed approach. There's many more factors involved, including preservation of fresh water.
Re:Downsides to planting trillions of trees
by gruez on Saturday October 02, 2021 @09:46AM
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>CO²
Nitpick here: I see you've gone into the effort of stylizing the 2, but chemical formulas are supposed to be numbered using subscripts, not superscripts.
It's also a gross oversimplification to look at CO² balance by absorption by trees only. Floodplain forests, forested swampland and broad-leafed trees also store massive amounts of CO² even when the forest is mature.
But more importantly, mature and healthy forests offer a broad range of benefits beyond binding CO². Reducing the value of forests and the associated ecosystems to CO² is a flawed approach. There's many more factors involved, including preservation of fresh water.