LET'S STOP BEING FOOLED WITH TREES (and explain it to all your friends)
The United States and most affluent Western societies produce about twenty tons of carbon dioxide per year, per head of population. A growing forest produces about twenty cubic metres of wood per year, per hectare. Timber growth in rain forests can reach forty cubic cubic metres, but all the tropical rain forests are already saturated and can't absorb any more CO2. That dump is full. (Forest Soils and Nutrient Cycles by Dr. Peter Attiwill and Prof. Geoffrey Leeper. University of Melbourne. Australia).
Wood has twice as much carbon as carbon dioxide but it's porous and less dense - that's why it floats. So we need to grow twenty cubic metres of wood per year to compensate for the twenty tons of CO2 we each produce.
In about thirty years the old trees start dying off. So forest growth stabilizes and ceases absorbing CO2. As a CO2 sink, our forest is full.
At age thirty each of us would need another empty hectare of land to plant and grow more trees for our next thirty years of CO2 production. Then the next generation would need their couple of hectares.
Humans on average have about 0.8 ha or two acres of agricultural land to live on and grow all their food and fibre. Trees as a carbon sink is a giant PR fabrication.
"The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.".. Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf 1925.
But I prefer Lincoln "---but you can not fool all of the people all of the time".
