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>First, the CO2 released from burning farmed plants does not increase the CO2 in the atmosphere. It’s a cycle.

But you can say the same about burning coal.. That CO2 will eventually be consumed by plants and stored there as carbon.. only it will take quite some time

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Except it won't, dead plants decompose and release their carbon back in to the atmosphere whether you burn it or not. Coal comes from an age where atmospheric carbon was much higher and nothing had evolved to decompose wood, digging it up and burning it means a net increase, growing something and burning it is net neutral.

Technically it will, because there are geological processes that more or less permanently remove carbon from the atmosphere, but they take geological time (tens of thousands of years).

Coal was laid down well before the current atmospheric equilibrium. The CO2 in coal and other fossil fuels has essentially been removed permanently from the atmosphere.

Until we dig it up and burn it, anyway.

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