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Well, a tree removes quite a lot carbon for quite a long time. Just let it grow for a century or so.



Good point. Not sure if they're allowed to grow for that long, I think some options are on timberland. But if they are, it seems like a reasonable short-term help.


In order to be usable, you 10+ years anyway. And in case you don't burn the wood, the CO2 stays out of the CO2 cycle for even more years anyway.

And by planting the right kind of trees, we could even go a long way to repair and safe our forests which are suffering from climate change and monocultures.




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