Don't forget the other natural carbon sinks. We can create ecological problems by planting trees where they don't belong.

Prairie and steppe restoration is also a huge part of the picture here, and people do not talk about it enough. Which is resulting in afforestation on the western prairie, which is again, causing ecological problems and habitat loss because Trees Trees Trees.

Don't get me wrong. Reforestation is awesome. I love trees.

But prairie and steppe restoration is also important. One way to restore the American prairie is to raise fewer cows and more bison. Bison can be ranched (and most of them have some domestic cow in them at this point anyway), and because they evolved to be there they not only help restore and maintain the prairie but produce more meat per acre...and produce less methane (also a greenhouse gas).

Another important thing not talked about here is wetland restoration, which in some parts of the world does include reforestation (not much stops coastal flooding better than a mangrove forest).

The last thing I'd like to mention is eutrophic cascades. The reintroduction or restoration of a key species, in the right away, can rebalance an entire ecosystem. In parts of the west, we thought that key species was wolves. Turns out, not quite. Wolves are very helpful, but the keystone species for many of these ecosystems is, in fact, the humble, hardworking beaver. Beavers engineer their own environment and in so doing create habitat for others.

Maybe we need to be more like beavers.