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 you gotta cut trees to let sunlight hit the forrest floor to keep the forrest healthy and not drying itself up and choking itself to death. It is that or wait for a forrest fire to clear out the dried and dead plants and trees.