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[–] Delta_V 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Untrue.
Just letting a forest grow wild is carbon neutral. The soil reaches a point of saturation. Eventually the dead trees get eaten by detritivores, releasing the captured carbon back into the air.
Keeping it sequestered long term requires burying it deep - the trees would need to be cut down and transported to where bacteria, fungus, and so on can't eat them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

forest does not exist. Carbon is in atmosphere
forest grows, carbon is bound up in whatever lives in the forest
forest reaches steady state, carbon emitted by decomposition is balanced out by new growth

It’s net negative as long as it exists. What I said is true.