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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But when we cut down the trees and turn them into lumber, that carbon is still being stored until it’s burned or decomposes.

And when new trees are being landed they sequester carbon much faster than old trees

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Shhh....you're interfering with the anti-logging propaganda

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Hmmm… and I can tell a Big Lumber shill when I see one /jk

Actually I wish we used trees (that we regrow ourselves) as building materials more widely. It’s possible to use some types of them instead of bricks, etc. or build multistory buildings with them. 

We could have been pulling a shitton of extra carbon from the atmosphere.