@patrickc maybe a future Stripe can find a way to finance carbon-negative wooden construction. At the moment nothing beats trees (except maybe bamboo) for atmospheric recovery of CO2 + sequestration, and since the world has a lot of capital it would be nice to put it to good use.
but as a comparison, nature does cycle carbon impressively quickly. Taken as a whole, terrestrial plants absorb ~120 Gt C / year, that's 15% of the CO2 in the atmosphere. Forest biomass is 92% of all terrestrial biomass and is about 400 Gt C; but it doesn't cycle that fast
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temperate and boreal forests aren't keeping up with the 10 Gt/C year human emissions; they are off by about a factor of 2, based on these figures: https://www.fs.usda.gov/ccrc/topics/global-carbon … you'd have to cut emissions it's totally different if you can manage tropical forests well. (the Amazon...)
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