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> Isn't the goal just to take carbon out of the atmosphere?

I disagree. We also want to avoid ecological cascade effects in our ecosystems.

Having huge forests full of trees and barren of much else is great if it allows us to protect other more interesting ecosystems.

And perhaps the best way to create a sustainable ecosystem around the trees is to plant them and see what else develops, rather than try and curate a specific balance of organisms.

You just don't know what ecosystems are. You don't just plant hundreds of trees of the same species and call it an ecosystem, that is just a colony and lacks many characteristics that an ecosystem needs.

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