Comment by hutzlibu
3 years ago
"imagine a world where there is just too much wood (woodworkers be salivating) and there are massive jungles everywhere we could fit one."
That's how the world looked like, before humans chopped or burned them down and let cattle, goats and sheep prevented new forests from growing again.
Reforesting at least parts of that back, would capture significant amounts of CO2. No matter that a old tree composes at some point, because at the same time another tree growing where the old one stood, will compensate that.
What regions of the world are we talking about? Northern Africa? South America?
All of them?
Except the iciest colds in the north and most arid deserts, forests used to be the norm.
edit: of course not every land was covered by forests, prairie also existed natural, but forests were a lot more common, than they are today.
I guess I was unaware, I'd thought forests in North America were more or less at par with the last few millennia.