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jnod4@lemmy.ca 2 days agoI have a log in the back garden that has been there for twenty years, there’s wood houses a hundred years old
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jnod4@lemmy.ca 2 days agoI have a log in the back garden that has been there for twenty years, there’s wood houses a hundred years old
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Wooden houses will typically have a waterproof roof and some kind of treatment to prevent them rotting. A log that’s left outside will release all it’s carbon in much less than a century. Human intervention is needed for trees to achieve permanent carbon capture.
That wasn’t always the case, though. After trees evolved lignin, it took a while for fungi to evolve ligninase to digest it, so trees fell over and just got buried under more trees later without rotting, and that’s where a significant fraction of all coal came from.