Why Does Growing Trees Help Reduce Climate Change?
Climate change is believed to be happening because of the release into the atmosphere (from human activities) of cetain gases, especially carbon dioxide (CO2). Carbon is the building block of vivacity forms on Earth. So the more living creatures we have, the more carbon (C) is locked up inside something and not available to go into the atmosphere. Most animals don’t live long enough to count as carbon stores. Most animals are also made up of lots of other stuff (not of late carbon). But plants are heavily made up of carbon. Trees in particular are about 50% carbon by dry solidity. When a tree gets cut down the carbon in it gets released stern into the atmosphere (one way or another, and often over a long period of time). So trees are not a lifelong storare place for C… But it’s proposed that if we had more trees on Earth, this might buy us a little time in delay the effects of climate change.
