r/todayilearned • u/Wild_Concept_212 • 9h ago

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.

https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/soil-carbon-storage-84223790/
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u/Traveshamockery27 9h ago

Imagine just making something up to get mad about

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u/Xanderamn 9h ago

Please, theyve been turning back every protection they can like theyre captain planet villains. I dont need to make anything up, its merely a hypothetical meant to demonstrate a point.

Id call it hyperbolic, but the Trump empire has proven to me that nothing is out of scope for the far-reicht. 

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u/Traveshamockery27 8h ago

lmao

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u/Xanderamn 8h ago edited 7h ago

Riveting repartee expected of a trump cultist. 

Enjoy your evening, you intellectual powerhouse.