What if there were 1 trillion more trees? - Jean-François Bastin
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- Published on Oct 26, 2020
- How can trees help in the fight against climate change? Dig into the efforts to rebuild damaged ecosystems and reduce carbon emissions.
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Today humanity produces more than 1,400 tons of carbon every minute. To combat climate change, we need to reduce fossil fuel emissions, and draw down excess CO2 to restore the balance of greenhouse gases. Like all plants, trees consume atmospheric carbon through photosynthesis. So what can trees do to help in this fight? Jean-François Bastin digs into the efforts to restore depleted ecosystems.
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“The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.”
For real
@Harsh nope, wont do anything
There is no best time to plant a tree. There is no worst time to plant a tree. There is just... time. Time to plant a tree.
@Edward Teach Lovely! I have an apricot tree, a lime tree, an orange tree, and a young pomegranate tree. I'm hoping to have a lemon tree someday- maybe even an orchard. I love lemons
Very original
Can we just appreciate how beautifully this was animated
it’s like the google backgrounds
I disagree with you. This art style is mostly associated with modern-day corporations (Facebook, Google etc.), and looks dystopian. Those disproportionate bodies with deformed limbs have been the plagues of infographics since the early 2010, and is mostly associated with hipsters or coffee-related barista doodles. The style screams, ‘corporations are trying to be friends, stay relevant, and appeal to the general audience’-but it is vapid; form without essence.
I honestly despise this art style
Dude i hate these coomments
The chicken one was better
I really appreciate how they don't shy away from the complexity or controversy around an issue - and they still find a way to present ideas succinctly and clearly (and beautifully!). This is my favorite TheXvid channel.
I think this channel is pretty good, but it's not the best youtube channel, I think they're all good (unless it's a roblox channel🤪😂)
I agree wholeheartedly sir! Best TheXvid channel award right here!
I’m proud to say I’ve planted 20 trees
I can only manage to do potted plants 🤣. I wish to plant trees too!
Good for you man nice work
I’m proud to say I’ve planted a single sunflower
2 i have planted 2 trees and im 14
Ive only planted 10 mango trees, only 6 survived tho :(
I'm a 17 year old and proud to say that most of my pocket money goes into planting and gardening, I've planted many including my favorites portia trees, mexican plumeria, Neem, Ficus Amplissima, Moringa, Tamarind in my home, my grandma's, my cousins and at random places, I live in Pakistan and ppl here really don't know it's importance. I'm also on Inaturalist and I'm currently no.1 observer of wildlife from karachi, I love naturr
Hey I'm 17 too and most of my money goes to planting and gardening as well! Only very very few people from whom I know are like us, most people from our age group tend to neglect nature and not care of its importance.
Good luck with your gardening and planting!
keep going strong homie
@Cynical Clusterfuck If you think about it from the point of view that him investing in trees makes him feel better is the same as him investing in himself as he is feeling better.
Keep your good work mate
That's awesome! Please keep it up and become one of the greatest nature scientists and find the best way to save/heal our planet! I know you can do it!
The video brings up an interesting point without actually saying it explicitly: No number of trees can ever restore Earth's previous carbon balance, because they don't destroy carbon or carbon dioxide, only store it while alive. The carbon in their remains can get stored deeper underground on geological timescales, but not on timescales that are meaningful for us as a civilization. Meanwhile, we are digging up coal and oil which has been storing carbon from life from hundreds of millions of years ago, and re-releasing it into the atmosphere. No number of natural trees could ever contain the collective carbon from eons of past life.
Right! Very interesting, made me think about the number of people that think that trees are going to save us. Personally I thought they destroyed carbon, not that I was taught that but I just assumed because that is what I generally heard
when you realize planting a billion hectares of forest only covers a sixth of our emissions
*a grilion hectares
That's only a 6th of our carbon emissions. Doesn't take into account of methane.
They didn't say whether that was just 1/6th of our annual emissions or 1/6th of our total emissions. Big difference.
a billion hectares is 2/3 of the planet's surface area
the planet is currently 30% forested; we lost 1% coverage in the last 30 years
so to do 1/6 of our emission we'd need 96% forested
@Talyn okay look, with all due respect, you need not nitpick lines out of context. it is evident that line was in context of humanity as a whole. Obviously most emissions by humans are *excess*, not to say they're significant or anything. it is the bulk that makes it a problem. Nature can handle these changes to an extent but the sheer rate at which, say emissions are being dumped it way too high and to beleive that it's too high and mighty of us to think that we can affect nature is naive and just straight wrong.
Of course it's the corporations and big industries that cause almost all of this pollution but you know what enables them to keep producing this stuff? demand. I'm not saying the supply chain can be crippled so easily, the governments and the corporations have a huge HUGE part in it but we can't just take all of the blame off of our shoulders and shove it up someone else's vault.
this does, by no means imply that we must give up all and everything immediately and go back to the caveman ways but the situation is actually a lot lot worse than most people are aware. you may be a well informed person, you seem to be but you gotta pause for a while and actually read what I'm saying, my guy.
cheers.
This very enlightening and educative. Thanks so much! I sometimes daydream of the number of trees I could plant if I were as rich as elon musk or jeff bezos, but turns out the issue is much more complex than simply planting new trees.
Question though: what are the six countries you mentioned at 3:55?
"Planting all these trees could have unforseen consequences." Like it could be any worse than what we do already
Ever see Futurama? They literally have an episode, showing an unforeseen consequence of having 1 trillion more trees.
Could be much much worse! We are still surviving very well for now (we definitely need to do some thing about climate change)
But in regards to planting all those trees. Maybe potentially forest fires they cover entire countries or more? Or kills off entire species? It’s really hard to say but either way we need to do something about our current situation
It's already been said but I have to say it again ... wow! the animations are stunning. What super talented artists you have.
When he said "is there a fast growing, long living tree that we can plant world wide?" my first thought was, invasive plants have a much likelier chance of having a more detrimental impact on ecosystems than invasive animals.
Both the animation style and the message of the video are equally touching and beautiful. This should be shown to more and more people so as to inspire them to plant and nurture more trees. It's now or never, guys.
Thanks to the animators, this is beautiful.
Everyone: *Glorifies trees for producing oxygen*
Algae and plankton that produce 70% of the oxygen on earth: "Am I a joke to you?"
Carbon dioxide is not the only problem... methane also exists...
This video is about carbon sequestration…
@BioMutarist Did you not read a word that he said? He literally said that.
TED: What if there were 1 trillion more trees?
Me: Awesome
A NEW YEARS TRADITION WE SHOULD HAVE IS TOO PLANT 3 TREES EACH! (Im getting some friends together and were gonna plant 20)
Yes, instead of needlessly letting fireworks explode. This needs to be a thing 👏
@FiensZy Vegans don't eat trees, lol.
@Colton Belley is most soy that goes to that in the US? Or US owned land?
If you’re referring to deforestation for soy production, the vast majority of that soy goes towards feeding livestock.
@FiensZy Vegan teacher be like :BuT aTlEaSt Ur nOt kIlLiNg aNiMaLs !
This is one of your best videos! Please, keep creating materials to raise awareness about environmental conservation.
a big part of reducing those emissions is through the use of mycelium, a fungal growth underneath forests with a symbiotic relationship with trees, granting them a communication method while strengthening everything in the area, making growth easier for other plants as well
this INSTANTLY makes this sort of revitalization method MUCH easier as the use of one species can be somewhat mitigated, though sparse dotting of various trees to grow into an area through use of mycelium and time would create a FAR denser, more stable and overall strong forested ecosystem capable of supporting more life, this would make earth passable in the time it requires to make somewhere else minimally livable, so we can focus on getting that running then live more and more on that planet giving this one time to heal while using another planet for the less nature-friendly production
I think it would be so beautiful if we had more trees, honestly, more forests in general
7 years ago, I asked my Environmental Science teacher what trees were more sustainable and which absorbed more carbon dioxide, and he had no clue. This video answered soooo many questions. Thank you for your hard work TED ED!
Beautifully animated, and well explained.
You can't believe how good nature is at planting trees. Our efforts to grow trees is like adding an eyedropper worth of water to the ocean.
Schools should play TED animation videos for students. I'm learning so much from them.
I agree
Fr
sorry I don't have school.
@TED-Ed ENGLAND !!!
Just how much hard work is put into this
Appreciate it ! :)
What can really help is replanting of a variety of species of seagrass in shallow coastal areas!!!! Grows 4 times quicker than your average land plant n sequesters alot more carbon!!! And also adds as a fish nursery!!😀👍
The way in which they make videos is just appreciable.
Hats off for you ....
The music and and animation is just so calming. Like the time you sit under a tree, peacefully reading a book, inhaling the fresh air that trees give us
Beautiful animation + Informative video even children would love to learn like this.
This animation is absolutely beautiful!
This video directly proves that we really need to stop cutting down the trees in amazon. It is absolutely worrying that we are losing more and more trees by the second.
"This giant SEQUoia has SEQUestered roughly 1400 TONS of atmospheric carBON" that line fire
Well I hope not, such an old tree would be vulnerable to fire!
*Interesting Fact :*
Jadav Payeng is called the "Forest Man Of India". He has raised a 550 Hectares forest single handedly by planting trees everyday for more than 40 years in Assam, India !!
@S M yes just delete the population very easy
@Tall Man what is your concern when you lack both !🤣🤣
@S M that is an useful but controversial suggestion .
@Tall Man lol. ah, no he was not one of your 'kind'
I am not against the idea of planting more trees, I love them!
But won't that many extra trees drain groundwater much much faster ? Sorry if this is a bad question
Very glad that this video covered that it's not simple enough to just plant trees. It matters what type of tree, if it's native and a summation of what the consequences might be.
Lots of reforestation doesn't even work. Ecosystems are complicated and try to balance themselves out.
Hands down, our biggest issue is fossil fuels, mainly through transportation and creation of products.
We shouldn't of taken something that had been in the earth for thousands of years and just start burning it and putting it into the air. Actions always have consequences.
Your personal carbon foot print is a fart in a hurricane compared to corporations and nations use for industries and transportation.
While it helps to do your part, we're not going to get anywhere if the burden is on the general public, because we're not the ones making one use plastics, we're not the ones producing various luxury/superfelous goods, nor are we the ones forcing truck drivers and planes to carry all kinds of cargo.
Biggest foot print is corporations by a long shot and they are more than happy to have people thinking their personal carbon foot print should be in spot light instead of them.
Even if everyone reduced their usage, if corporations aren't forced to change, it won't help. Similar to the meat vs vegan debate. Farming is bad for the environment, whether you are farming veggies and fruits or meat. Vegan would save some time, but it doesn't at all fix the problem. Frutis and veggies are also extremely tempermental often and their transportation costs a lot in ways of emitting carbon.
Getting an avocado is probably worse than buying local meat if it avocado isn't native.
Where I grew up in the '50s and separately where my grandparents lived on a farm, those areas have changed markedly in the last 60 years to the point of being barely recognizable. It's because the small trees that used to be there are now large. Those areas are much more forested.
Imagine that after restoring this areas with trees etc., one of the biggest concerns is to protect it against people cuttin it down.
2050: humanity restored all of the forests
2051: Californians have burned down half of the world's forests through gender reveal parties
It's a boy
*Acres of trees burned to the ground*
@ExDee WobblumI thought they burned because farmers want to plant soy.
@helo
The Amazon rainforest is being burned in order for the engines of capitalism to run
@Shanu Bag Close. Before birth, not after.
These animations are beautiful, nice job!
we have a lot of trees around in one house😂 and i love the animation❤️
Just planting trees and restoring ecosystems isn't enough, we need to reduce emission of carbon too.
I am new on this channel and really like it. The videos are truly educational
My mans really missed their chance to spell ‘treellion’
@Cormac O'Looney they must be sad
@Xenny 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Kedves Boldog is this
treeligion?
Did you mean: men
Mr beast once he reaches one trillion subs:
IM GONNA PLANT 1 TRILLION TREES
I really want to like this comment, but I can't because this comment has 420 likes
@Munk but even if he only uses a portion of his (extremely large) income, he"s making tremendous change in the community by giving to people, and we play a role in that by watching him. Can he give away more? Yes, absolutely. But it's much better than other youtubers with large income who constantly buy things for themselves. As for whether he and his crew are cringey or not, that's based on personal taste and I won't comment on that. I think they're pretty funny.
@magiccarpet wowww how is it that you user TheXvid but don't know this legendary MrBeast with 65 million subs! I mean, he's one of the most popular TheXvidrs ever
he already did plant 20 million+ trees
Anonymous lmao true
This video is really great but can I just talk about how good that animation is? It's mesmerizing
This animation is so fluid, it never stops moving.
Great explanation with excellent animation.childrens will be more interested to see videos like this....😊
I think we need to acknowledge the artist who made such fascinating and animations...
I learnt more from ted Ed than from my school.
Thank you ted ed😊
666 like
Thing is Ted Ed and similar channels are good at making you visualise and grasp a concept but as they cannot show you the exact details of a concept in a 4-minute video
Ted ed gives u quick, and nice info, but to get deeper u need to read textbooks
@The Gerber Baby exactly! It all seems even difficult with online classes😣
@Fāsutonēmu Myōji i wish that’s how it worked dude. Sadly it’s hard to do that within quarantine for some. Some teachers also just aren’t great or don’t work with every students learning style sadly. Textbooks can be helpful but so can TheXvid.
If we can plant that many trees and sustain their well being for a long time to come, I have a feeling that we will notice that not only living organisms will naturally live longer and better but also our physical stature might change. Mammals will start gaining mass and larger forms? Just like after the end of the Cretaceous period and the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs.
What if human intervention is an intrinsic part of an ecosystem's inherent complexity?
Currently I'm trying to plant 3 to 5 trees in my garden plus an additional 2 mango trees I planted last month - we need to come together to fix what we've done
and the coolest part is we would have more forest to explore and more nature to enjoy
TED-Ed is one of a few that can master making education engaging and beautiful
Also, a trillion more trees would, I'm certain, reduce deaths from covid. Less people needing ventilators. More oxygen from more trees, please.
My country is border by Brazil in south America. Connected to the Amazon rain forest. Guyana has 87% forest cover. High in biodiversity. Our government plans to maintain our rainforest for generations to come.
A splendid way to present and explain the most valuable topic.
Learnt a lot in this 5:43
Hello TED-Ed, I love your videos. I will much in love with it if you can shorten the intro, especially the sound effect. It feel the pace is much slower than the contents. It can become a pain point from watching your videos. Thank you for your dedication for making a lot good stuff
Sir please do these videos detailed for each country . And also in that videos please tell us how a person living in urban areas can help to decrease CO2 emissions.
Please start with India.
This is thing i tried to implement in every students after taught about photosynthesis “Have a chance, plant any plant.” And you will find the better world in the future.
At first I just want to say that the illustrations and graphics in all the vedios of this channel are amazing..... this was very informative too.
“Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
― Anonymous Greek Proverb
@Michael Keller Then Democrats cut all the trees down to give them away...and then wander around confused why there's no shade.
TFW: This (maybe) copied comment from 8 months ago gets more likes than the original 9 months ago.
“If the Hour (the day of Resurrection) is about to be established and one of you was holding a palm shoot, let him take advantage of even one second before the Hour is established to plant it.”
-Prophet Muhammad
@Liam van Velzen That’s cool...
Thanks.
What if in the near future when we have the technology, we just collect a lot of excess carbon and launch it into space?
This video: WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING TO HAVE MORE TREES
Also this video: WE DON'T ACTUALLY NEED TO DO ANYTHING TO HAVE MORE TREES
We could probably make the perfect tree species. Also, the native ones aren't always the best compared to other species. Invasive species are plants that are too effective at the new environment they are in, typically ruining that ecosystem. We could create a tree through genetic engineering(yknow, that stuff they do with M&Ms?) and create a tree that could thrive in environments such as Cities, Landfills, and Marshes.
this channel is so successful in getting their information across. everyone needs a raise
Wished the world focused more on Biology aside from IT. That would strike a balance between tech and nature in the future.
I bet you were thinking you commented something profound lmfao.
@Mihail Mickoski thanks man. Appreciate it. Hope all is well with you and your family too 🙏👍
@Mihail Mickoski ah well, all I can say is that you got me 😅
@Mihail Mickoski I'm not a boomer. I'm 17 😅
It drives research in every facet of science .
We should also reconsider modern architecture and integrate living trees in the design, which is easier said than done.
I'm aspiring to be a botanist before this video. I have never heard anybody talk about this until now
Impressive video, i wonder how many trees could have been planted with the production budget of this 6m video. Well done.
What if, decreasing ice regions into ocean is a way nature expanding its oceanic field of algaes and microscopic creature that does photosyntesis to balance the excecive carbons in our planet and clean the atmosphere.
Just a thought tho.
I love how this has quickly become one of my favourite channels. I love random knowledge, answers to whys, and hows. Blows my mind everytime.
What I love about it is that it makes me wonder about questions I’ve never thought of.
Remember when in Victorian England they bred apples to get the sweetest apples? What if we breed a species of tree that absorbs the largest amount of carbon? Though it would take a very long time.
Fascinating. I've wondered to myself before... why don't we take the scientific attention that is used to genetically modify certain foods to grow with more resilience, less reliance on resources, produce a stronger yield, et cetera, and transfer that to a tree that's "carbon hungry" and ready to grow? Very well a work of science fiction in the moment, although it's an idea. =)
Dear TED ED
Your work of providing knowledge to peoples is really appreciable.
Don't you think many more ideas to educate peoples, not only from you tube platform.
They also have a blog
In the lungs of the world, the Indonesian island of Borneo, we have a person who was a French citizen who is now an Indonesian citizen. he built a gibbon conservation place for 20 years (a type of native endemic animal) and he guarded the forest by living in the forest with his wife and children, he managed to free the land that would be used as mining
We can help and see first hand her struggle on her TheXvid channel "Channe Kalaweit", this is the video link
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Kurzgesagt: Geoengineering and those side effects
Me: so how to help the earth?
TedEd: we can geoengineering with plant tree as much as possible ..
Me: _aah yes finally_
Also TedEd: but ...
Me: _ah ..... okay_
@M G104 Thanks for your reply. I'll check these things out and answer afterwards, cheers!
@ToxicFyre Technology is a product of civilization. Solar panels, wind turbines, hydroelectricity all require unsustainable production. They are alien to their local ecosystem, just as we are. Have you watched "Primitive Technology?" That's the only sustainable technology- 100% recyclable, renewable. Innovation removes us from nature. Equilibrium will only be achieved on a local level, limiting our resources and thereby, our technology. Can't you see that? Our myopic solutions to Mother Nature's perceived problems become problems in and of themselves. I came upon these conclusions after reading the second chapter of David Orr's "The Nature of Design: Ecology, Culture and Human Intention."
@M G104 But even though humanity has been at odds with the environment this whole time doesn't mean we can't create a technological civilization which is in balance with it, no? I mean, there's no law of nature that says so, just our track record.
@ToxicFyre Funny. Nature was in balance until human civilizations began. Agricultural surplus, urban production and transportation begat cities; an environment that brought mankind out of nature, apart from the laws nature enforces to keep organisms in equilibrium. Technology and innovation separate us from these struggles, enabling us to transcend the local ecosystems and disproportionally take resources necessary for life to thrive. I believe integrating ourselves back into the local, giving up technology and our standard of living is the only way to reconcile humanity to nature.
@M G104 While I agree that our modern society needs way more interaction with nature. Technology has been with us since we have invented agriculture. We could find a good way to balance these two elements. What do you think?
How do you even do such animation like this 😍😭. Would love to learn but seems kinda complicated.
With fears of supply chain issues, droughts, and such, we decided to plant several fruit trees. If you have the land to do so, I recommend planting fruit and nut trees appropriate for your zone and region. Sure, it’s an investment, but in 5-10 years they will provide you or a future homeowner with food, shade, and oxygen. It is literally a win win win.
I want to find an technology in the future where you can do industrialisation without harming the environment, birds and everything which is nature related.
nuclear power
What I'm doing, personally, is reducing my carbon footprint and my plastic wastes. Our local government also initiates fruit trees to be planted. I believe that there is nothing like a one solution to fix the problem of climate change. I believe that we have slowly exploited nature, and to solve that, we can slowly change our ways for the better.
My science teacher once said, humans is not the highest of all animals, rather, humans are smart animals. However, if these humans could not perform their role, they are much lesser than invertebrates and bacteria that perform their roles. We, as self-called stewards of nature, needs to perform this role. Let us do our part, let us do our role.
"When the last tree is cut, the last river poisoned, and the last fish dead, we will discover that we can’t eat money." - Alanis Obomsawin
So it turns out money hasn't been very beneficial to us...
Money is fantastic. It means I can barter with someone and obtain something even if what I produce is not of interest to the supplier.
Don’t confuse money with the bad side of human behaviour. That would exist regardless.
Money is the greatest incentive both positive and negatively. Fines and other deterrents are something good money does then on the other hand money gives an incentive to do better in life. I think the good out weighs the bads overall.
The amount of people making baseless assumptions on technological/societal progress and false equivalences in this thread is astonishing.
We will still got nutrient paste made from mycelium based proteins and recycled waste matter. With complex flavorings and innovations it will probably even be somewhat palatable. Not fun but hey no mosquitoes, that's a win right?
After a tree dies the carbon can also stay there for a long time. It depends on the conditions
I think there is a risk that the extra weight would cause the land to sink into the ocean.
Loving this. Can we take a moment to appreciate the oh my goodness beautiful drawings and graphics???
Planting and harvesting hardwood is also viable. If used to build housing or anything that can be later properly recycled, we could continually extract carbon this way. We just have to make sure not to burn or let the wood decompose in the future.
schools: plant more trees to save the earth!
ted-ed: well actually you might cause an ecosystem imbalance and biochemical emissions that speed up global warming
students: my life is a lie
Which biochemical emissions?
We're at a dire point in history where that might is a much smaller risk than the chance we hit the CO2 point where clouds stop forming. Yes, really, literally. There is a concentration of CO2 at which clouds to cease forming. We need to act really quickly, and that includes takings smaller risks, because we REALLY do not want to hit that point. Trees create clouds (they allow water to evaporate into the atmosphere) so it seems like a good counter balance.
Incidentally the not-forming of clouds wouldn't be uniform, but water usage will become impossible to manage if we get to that point because less less clouds means less rain.
Restoring ecosystems is one of the THE best things we can do. Doing so naturally brings balance, I think NOT restoring ecosystems because it might speed up global warming is one of the silliest ideas I've ever heard.
@shxtney That's a good point. I really hope that turns out to be wrong though
@Curran Frank you're right, but it's a possibility nonetheless. if i hadn't watched this video, i would've never known otherwise. i likely would've went on living my life believing that planting trees is a foolproof method to save the earth, but now at least i know about this risk.
my mom and i have planted 30 trees in an urban area and people dont like it somehow they try to cut it but they still stand firm due to our efforts , i think awareness is needed much
It's kind of staggering just how much a trillion trees is. The Bonn Challenge's goal of 350 million trees is a lot, and it's a step in the right direction, but that's still less than a tenth of a percent of a trillion. It's a bigger number than any of us can fully visualize or process.
I bought an acre of land with a house, since then I have planted over 72 trees and bushes. Love my baby trees.
That sounds nice. Trees add beauty to houses and yards. Trees add beauty to the world. You should see the scenery in British Columbia
wow didn't know that planting this many trees and trying to build an ecosystem can make another issue, I always thought that "We can fight climate change just by planting trees" lmao didn't realize it was more complex than that.
Imagine if Kurzgesaght and TED-ED collaborated!
They remind me of each other
Educational revolution
Infographics should also join the gang
That would be outstandingly awesome!
That would be amazing to see
My dad must´ve planted like 50 trees, but if you think about the ammount of paper and wood he used during his life, thats really nothing in comparison :(
Can we take a moment to appreciate this amazing zen animation!
One of the best animations I've seen 🙌🏻✨
Narrator in love with the word “sequester”.
in a single sentence: stop burning amazon.
@Gustavo Gomes The impossible wopper contains 44 mg of Estrogen. Do I have to explain to you, why estrogen isn't good for anyone?
@Pedro Henrique Besides the fact that the wood that the us obtains from brazil, has to be replaced.
I love how people say stop burning Amazon when their country already chopped down all it's forests
I think it would be great to have a list of the sources you used for the video ;)
Awesome and important video. Thanks for sharing!
Plants reach an optimal level of carbon sequestration. Past that optimum, selective harvest and replanting with sequestration of the harvested woody mass by pyrolysis to biochar used for terra preta is the superior path. With selective harvest, forests can be made more hospitable to fauna and to mixed flora. Collecting slash from harvest and windfall and natural die off reduces exposure to extreme wildfire weather. Displacing fossil fuels with biofuel from this virtuous cycle pays off in lower transfer of carbon from lithosphere to atmosphere. Especially toward the west coasts of continents, superforest rain shields buffer extremes of precipitation pattern changes, reducing desertification, drought, erosion and flood.
You remember the Team Trees thing where they wanted to plant 20 million trees in a year? Fun fact: To match the CO2 levels of the US only, Team Trees would have to plant double that, 40 million trees IN A day, EVERY day. It was even worse than being a "nice gesture". This made people focus on something entirely useless instead of something useful.
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