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.
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.