When trees die, they release every molecule of CO2 they ever consumed back into the atmosphere. Planting trees won’t solve anything in the long run. It can only ever give us mere 70 years. If we don’t destroy ourselves/the planet earlier that is.

good thing our current co2 levels are basically suffocation for the plants I guess

when CO2 levels rose on earth historically it always made vegetation grow like crazy, because they had more of their "oxygen" so could grow bigger

some greenhouses release CO2 inside to help the plants grow, in case that sounds bogus

(also dead trees take a long time to "release" that CO2. compost takes years. what if the tree becomes my bedside table? I found it side of the road and it's probably like 40 years old now! what about the planks inside my walls?! this suburb was built in the 1800s, one of the first settlements in the north Americas by the white man)

That doesn‘t sound right.
IIRC, trees are made of carbon which they mainly get from CO2. But when they die, they don‘t just evaporate back into CO2.
All that former CO2 remains in the matter of the tree.
The tree will slowly decompose and that might release some of the CO2 but probably not even half of what went in.
Unless we burn it.

Stick to writing code, Kiki. Environmental science isn’t your strong suit unless this is well disguised bait.

@Lensflare plants release O2. So the plant keeps the C. I am honestly surprised there isn't a plant that shits diamonds.

Did I miss the bit in school where we were taught trees spontaneously combust when they die?

Wood has carbon in, which the tree got from the atmosphere. The carbon is released back into the environment but that's quite different from the atmosphere.

Not completely. Their leaves fall in autumn and are mostly digested on the ground, but not all the carbon is re-released.

Also, trees only re-release carbon when they rot completely. It takes multiple years/decades for this to happen.

Also, trees lock carbon inside of themselves. So the more trees are out there - the more carbon they'll consume. Younger trees tend to grow mass faster, making them quite efficient in this job.

If you need to recover land from trees -- don't burn them. Either lock that cellulose+lignin in a form of furniture, walls, etc, or char it and perhaps burry it as well. Pure carbon is hard to metabolise by microflora, this is why it takes sooo long for the burned forests to recover.

Lock that carbon.

Planting trees IS the solution. Planting and NOT burning them

Have no knowledge about this at all but just can't swallow this.

Unless you bury dead trees deep into the ground, what I said stands true

Rotting is very slow burning. Same process.