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Food crops do not sequester carbon. They will either be eaten and exhaled as CO2, or decompose into CO2. Unless you have a link to someone planning on growing fields of corn just to bury it in an anaerobic environment?


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Living trees will grow faster and harvested lumber successfully sequesters carbon indefinitely.

Even crops we consume have non-negligible amounts of carbon sequestered in soil as they decompose.




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