Ok. Carbon sequestration is a real thing. That’s what coal does. Releasing that geologically sequestered carbon is what the carbon neutrality jihad is all about.
Now ... let’s go with the numbers here.
Massive reforestation on the scale projected could, over the next 75 years, remove five times Canada’s annual CO2 output. So in 75 years, Canada could offset it’s 2026 though 2030 emissions. Without denting its 2031-2100 emissions.
If math weren’t so heteronormative and white supremacist, I might try to figure it out. But math is hard. Ask any TikToker. But maybe this doesn’t add up to a plan.
We could probably get larger emissions reductions in the long run by getting environmental zealots, social justice warriors, and politicians to shut up for at least 20 hours a day.
Unless the dead trees (all trees die eventually) are sequestered (buried) they will rot. Their carbon will be released into the atmosphere as mostly methane which will then decay via sunlight into CO2 and H20.
CO2 reduction via forestation is a scam.