Just recycling carbon because you can’t get rid of it ,LOL
Being I was formerly in the forest products industry I have kept up a tad bit on these issues.
1st. There was a study years ago by several reputable universities-when there was reputable universities, that studied the effects of FOREST FIRE on the environment.
(A)What happens is, the smoke from those fires, has large amounts of mercury and other pollutants within it.
(B)Smoke from those fires carry water vapor far away from the immediate area downwind, resulting is drought far away from those fires.
(C)Effects of the loss of those forests is that the cooling effect does not happen in the immediate area resulting in no formation of rain within that area also resulting in drought.
(D)Carbon is not only released in vast amounts during the fire, but continues to be released as the burned timber is left to decay-in Canada, where the boreal forests are often burned, the carbon is not only released by decaying timber, but is released by the soil by the heating up of the peat because there is no shade to cover the ground till a new forest is established.
Now they can plant hybrid species, but the effects are the same. When that tree dies, it releases carbon through its decay. In effect, it is carbon neutral over time.