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A forest is not just trees. Lots of carbon storage happens between them, not to mention how important they are for biodiversity.

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This. It's crazy to me how "we're going to destroy ~all the forests" is viewed as a problem only because of its effect on global warming, and not as a huge existential environmental catastrophe (one that we must avert or perish) in its own right.

Nobody beyond the most brutal maoist futurist argues for that. Its a strawman, bit planting forrests is afailing strategy and if you take away the pure scammers and those who just know it wont work out and plant anyway, its lots of money wasted. Same money could buy a algea farm that sinks huge vertical undeewaterforrests info a abyss from whicg the oil once came.

>A forest is not just trees.

No one claimed this but you.

>Lots of carbon storage happens between them, not to mention how important they are for biodiversity.

Yes we know, it's almost like this subject deserves its own field of study [0][1].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Forest_manageme...

[1] https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/wjsf20

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