Oxygen is toxic anyways. Every organisms that breath or has breath oxygen is dead or will die one day.

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    There are exceptions to this like bogs/swamps where trees have more carbon sequestered when they die

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      1 year ago

      Bogs, specifically peat bogs, are indeed an exception, but that has very little to do with the trees.

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        Well yeah, there’s nothing about trees that make them impervious to decay but no real organism does that. But petrified trees are far more stable for carbon sequestration than peat bogs that some brilliant humans decide to burn.