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Planting trees is likely not going to be enough. There's so much carbon in the air right now that the symbiotic fungi that typically feed plants nitrogen in exchange for carbon, are doing so at a lesser rate. Essentially the exchange is experiencing inflation
Short of mining the moon to make orbital mirrors out of lunar tin foil, foucus on rapid and complete decarbonisation while accepting that there were consequences to largely ignoreing the problem for the last sixty years.
Solution is a maybe an overstatement, but
Trees are nice, but it's nowhere near enough to do that.
Charm Industrial likes Switchgrass I think. To make oil to pump back under.