sj_zero on Nostr: On geological timeframes, the problem with most things like trees or fungi is that ...

On geological timeframes, the problem with most things like trees or fungi is that they die and decompose and release the carbon they had, whereas sedimentary rock just keeps on building up millennium after millennium. We haven't had trees store carbon on geological timeframes since the carboniferous period, the geological period after the evolution of cellulose but before the evolution of cellulose eating fungi when the world was covered in massive forests that just kept on growing and falling over and getting covered up and sent underground.