What if we plant a tree on the freshly-dug grave of every billionaire?
this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2025
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Good. hardest part of a solution is figuring out what we need. , now let's go drop apple tree seeds everywhere.
Not kidding. Couldn't hurt
If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging!
By all means, feel free to figure out about filling it back in second, but that's doomed to failure if you skip step 1.
It's been great if we could slow down the rate at which the digging is increasing, for starters. Even that'd be a thing to see.
Deal.
Next!
I would love to live in a tree house
It's almost like we only really had one option this entire time!
Can't they use Russia instead?
I'd hold off until the current management is fired.
All the funds would get stolen to pay for big titties on mistresses and a pleasure yacht.
I doubt Russia is unique
As an European, that works for me.
And even if you did do that, where would you store the wood afterwards? You can't let it decay, that'd just put the carbon back into the atmosphere.
PV-powered drying and pyrolysis with capture and bottling of the wood gas would maximize the carbon sequestration ability of forest land. The pine species used for lumber and paper production are actually very good at capturing carbon during their growth stage and a lot of that land in the SE US has been sold off as demand for paper dropped off. The biochar produced from that process can also be added to soil, increasing its productivity and carbon sequestration rate.
... don't cut them down?
You think trees don't die and fall down on their own?
Sometimes, sure.
And the rest of them just stay frozen upright forever, I suppose.
As long as new trees start at a higher rate than the old ones fall down...
That would require an ever-increasing amount of forested land. A carbon pyramid scheme. As soon as you stop increasing the forest's area it goes back to an equilibrium of trees decaying equalling trees growing.
By the time we run out of land we'll all be long gone, and there will be complementary solutions.
Another problem with storing carbon as cellulose is it uses up all the available water. So the trees would need to be cut down and turned into charcoal to release the H's and O's, and then buried.
The world isn't short of water. I'd be more concerned about phosphorus and other such mineral nutrients, those would get pulled out of the soil and then not returned.
Frankly, I think the best approach to sequestration is to make plastic and bury it. Plastic has a much more controllable chemical structure, you can be sure to only get carbon that way.