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Trees aren't carbon capture, no plants are. They rot and decay releasing the carbon they supposedly captured.
Any carbon we capture has to be removed from the carbon cycle some how. I'm not sure you can use the carbon cycle to separate carbon from that cycle. You could grow the trees, then kiln them of all bacteria, then bury that sterilised mass in a sterile hole. But, first prove you didn't just create more carbon than you captured.
I am however, completely uneducated, the above is a carbon capture for infants. Listen to anyone more versed in the subject than I.
That's objectively untrue.
Tress definitely capture carbon, the only time they don't offset their output is if they die early.
Or if they die at all. Which they do, usually.
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I'm confused. Can you explain how you believe trees break the carbon cycle? Specifically, when a tree dies, regardless when it dies, what happens to the carbon captured in the tree? I believe:
But you said I'm objectively wrong.
I covered that one could try to preserve the wood:
Specifically preserving the wood takes energy. Moving the wood around takes energy. Storing the wood takes energy. Making the machines to do the above takes energy. Harvesting the materials to make the machines takes energy. Making the machines to harvest the materials takes energy. Harvesting the materials to make those machines takes energy. Feeding all the people to do those things takes energy. Clothing the people to do those things takes energy. Making the machines to feed and clothe those people takes energy... And on it goes Currently, where there's energy, there's carbon release. All of that release, has to be less than the carbon in the tree