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[–] traches@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year 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.