A huge amount of the carbon sequestration done by trees happens well below the ground and takes hundreds or even thousands of years to get effective. If you cut down an acre of trees, you’ll have to plant many acres to get the same effect in any kind of human timescale, and that just won’t and likely can’t happen. That acre was cleared for a reason and it’s unlikely just because an identical acre without trees somewhere else was in the wrong place.
Also worth pointing out that carbon capture and carbon removal/air capture are different things. Carbon capture happens at the smokestack. I know it’s confusing terminology, but that’s what’s being discussed in this article and that is what the term means in industry use.
You can’t plant old growth forests.
A huge amount of the carbon sequestration done by trees happens well below the ground and takes hundreds or even thousands of years to get effective. If you cut down an acre of trees, you’ll have to plant many acres to get the same effect in any kind of human timescale, and that just won’t and likely can’t happen. That acre was cleared for a reason and it’s unlikely just because an identical acre without trees somewhere else was in the wrong place.
Also worth pointing out that carbon capture and carbon removal/air capture are different things. Carbon capture happens at the smokestack. I know it’s confusing terminology, but that’s what’s being discussed in this article and that is what the term means in industry use.
Thank you. Im not who you were replying to but I was confusing the terminology.