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[–] 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Another fun tree fact I heard, the reason why coal exists was because trees existed on land for a long time before decomposers existed to digest their fibers. They just died and were buried intact. This actually caused a problem with sequestering so much CO2 that the earth went into an ice age.

Edit for clarification: decomposers did exist but they couldn't decompose tree lignin specifically so it just stayed around.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Too bad we don’t have that problem now.

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