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[–] 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Most "we plant a tree for every _____" things are just scams. They plant the trees, sometimes as monocrops that could never become a healthy forest, and usually without monitoring the trees or guaranteeing their survival into at least early-maturity.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Trees get too much credit. It's plankton in the ocean that absorbs like 70% of all co2

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Don't plankton mostly release that back into the atmosphere when they die though? Trees sequester it underground as roots and above ground as wood (assuming it doesnt burn, which is an increasingly ambitious assumption)

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