From an ecological perspective, I think it is quite extraordinary that pine trees grow so quickly. Just planting conifers exclusively is not going to reverse all the environmental instability that we have caused, but it's a stopgap method of reducing carbon in the atmosphere that we could implement almost immediately.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2021/12/29/plant-tree/ (the page also mentions the one you did)
From an ecological perspective, I think it is quite extraordinary that pine trees grow so quickly. Just planting conifers exclusively is not going to reverse all the environmental instability that we have caused, but it's a stopgap method of reducing carbon in the atmosphere that we could implement almost immediately.