SoleInvictus , 1 month ago

You don’t need continual replanting - they have seeds, remember?

That’s what I was implying with the bit about “trees accomplishing replanting themselves”, but I can see how that’s not clear.

Overall I super agree. My grad studies (put vaguely so I don’t dox my ass) were the microbiological aspect of a project examining carbon cycling in various growth stages of forest. Some people shit on trees as a method of carbon sequestration but a healthy, diverse forest can really pack it in, especially in early to mid seral stages, and retain it long term.

Plus humans have deforested the hell out of so much of the planet, returning some of it to closer to its previous state has far reaching benefits beyond chipping away at climate change.