• Jakylla@jlai.lu
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    A little part stills goes to soil and other, we wouldn’t have coal if old trees decomposed all their CO2 back to the air

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      Coal only exists because the bacteria did not exist yet to break the plant matter down when those trees died. New coal can not be formed now that the bacteria exist.

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        It can be formed, just not in the vast quantities it was back then. It requires unusual conditions to stop fungi making a meal out of it, before it gets buried deep enough.