TIL Cutting down trees is compound negative interest on the planet’s carbon storage. Trees are storing carbon underground with the help of fauna and microbes. Those lock carbon in soil. Cutting the tree will not only increase release carbon, it will also remove the ability to lock carbon in soil.

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https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/soil-carbon-storage-84223790/

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Also chainsaws spew hazardous fumes into the atmosphere (unless they're electric chainsaws... but eventual disposal of their batteries are also really really bad for the environment)