I was talking to a normie associate about the efforts to reduce "carbon footprints." He was mentioning about electric vehicles and wind turbines. I said "if they really believe that there's global warming, then why spend $4 million on an ugly wind turbine? How many beautiful trees do you think they could plant for $4 million?"
His response did find the problem with my suggestion, but it instantly made me realize how insane the entire premise of CO2 fear is.
He said "well, trees do absorb a lot of CO2 from the atmosphere each year, but the problem is that when they die and decompose, they put the CO2 back into the atmosphere."
He was right. Whenever a tree dies, all that carbon goes back into the air. But not not just trees, we're talking about every living thing on earth-- insects, farm produce, grass, weeds, fish, algae, mammals, bacteria, EVERYTHING! Not just when they die, but whenever a tree loses it's leaves, or an animal sheds skin or hair, much eventually becomes carbon in the air.
That's the way the world works! It's a huge cycle based on helpful CO2, helpful oxygen.
Trying to fight our carbon footprint is like telling people they need to drink less water and pee less or they'll be in danger of flooding the earth.
The premise of your statement is incorrect. When trees and other organic matter die, they fall to the ground and decompose, releasing the carbon and other minerals into the soil. These are particles, not gases.
The only way a tree could "release" carbon into the atmosphere is if it burns.
And if you cut some of the trees down and make houses and furniture from the wood that carbon is sequestered for decades.
Also, even if this theory of "carbon returning to the air" stood, with enough trees and sustainable lumberjacking (by making houses and furniture, as you say) that CO2 would go into other plants, growing them for years, decades.. centuries... millennia even in some cases.
I have read by geologic time standards today’s CO2 isn’t even that high as it has been higher sometimes much higher in other epochs. And plants are almost CO2 starved during this era.
these are particles that are digested by microbes, which then releases gasses into the atmosphere.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080731173125.htm
the government even did a report warning the food waste leads to global warming due to the gasses the decomposing food releases
https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2022/01/24/food-waste-and-its-links-greenhouse-gases-and-climate-change
This is such a miniscule amount, it could hardly be measured accurately (or meaningfully) on a global scale. CO2 only occupies 0.03 to 0.04% of the atmosphere. It can be measured in a lab under controlled conditions, but not on a larger scale.
The largest carbon sink on the planet? It's the oceans. Plankton release/use it when they photosynthesize, but that varies between daylight and nighttime. Seawater also absorbs CO2, more as temperatures rise. This is contrary to the narrative.
Government report, kek!
Wait, why would you believe a criminal organization who is already pushing global warming just because they talk about decomposition in a report?
Decomposition also creates methane, methane is a gas unless frozen or compressed into liquid.