carbon capture aka planting trees will actually affect the climate - in the long term, like 500+ years down the road - but you have to plant fast growing trees, harvest them every 50 years (using some method that is carbon negative), and then you have to find something to do with the quadrillions of board feet of lumber (which can only be processed using some carbon negative method). cant burn it, that’d just release the carbon back into the atmosphere. burying it is too much work. maybe use it as feedstock in continent spanning mushroom farms or something?
carbon capture aka planting trees will actually affect the climate - in the long term, like 500+ years down the road - but you have to plant fast growing trees, harvest them every 50 years (using some method that is carbon negative), and then you have to find something to do with the quadrillions of board feet of lumber (which can only be processed using some carbon negative method). cant burn it, that’d just release the carbon back into the atmosphere. burying it is too much work. maybe use it as feedstock in continent spanning mushroom farms or something?
it works but there’s issues with how it works.