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> First, the CO2 released from burning farmed plants does not increase the CO2 in the atmosphere. It’s a cycle.

Widespread nonsense.

The CO2 emitted through burning plants does not magically turn into plants again. Plants have limited capacity to draw CO2 from the atmosphere and there's plenty of that around already, indistinguishable from "industrial" CO2. Any CO2 added through fires increases atmospheric CO2, any plant burned doesn't increase, but decreases the chances of CO2 removed from the atmosphere in the future.




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