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Even if we recreated the entire Amazon Rainforest, it would only be equivalent in embedded carbon to 4-5x our annual human emissions:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/amazo....

We would have to essentially recreate the Azolla event (a geological process that took place for 800,000 years) to undo the carbon we are putting into the atmosphere:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azolla_event

The only way to stop climate change is to stop digging coal and oil out of the ground and burning it.

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