By Jessica McKenzie | January 15, 2024
By Jessica McKenzie | January 15, 2024
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Keywords: climate crisis, energy politics, environmental activism, fossil fuels, global warming, media, movements
Topics: Climate Change
Bill, you have to be careful saying things like forest fires emitting several times more CO2 tan the country does from industry and vehicles. Most (70-80%) of the carbon sequestered by trees lies in the trunks. In the aftermath of a wildfire, many of those trunks are left standing. It is still possible for a caring forestry industry to harvest those trunks for lumber, thus securing that carbon for many more decades or centuries.