Rigby5
Diamond Member
Actually we are planting more than we are harvesting. And there are global campaigns to plant more trees as well. The downside is that many of these trees are 'forest crop' trees that will be harvested before their potential to sequester CO2 is reached. The bright side is that much of the wood will be sequestered as building material, some will be turned into paper products and recycled (although much will be 'sequestered' in landfills). Some will eventually be burned for fuel, which isn't a bad use as it spares using some fossil fuel.
If dead and dying tree were harvested for fuel it would reduce some fossil fuel use, with a net-zero CO2 effect in the long run. And the ash makes great fertilizer.
Sorry, but we are killing about 3 times the number of trees we plant.
It is only commercial US industries, like Weyerhaeuser, who replant.
Most of the world does not, and most of the world is doing slash and burn agriculture that only wants to plants annual crops.
But I agree with you that burning plants is essentially carbon neutral compared to burning long sequestered fossil fuel.