It takes decades for those trees to grow to firewood size. In the meantime there will be carbon "in flight". Since the trees will be cut down and burned again, effectively replanting only reduces emissions by some fraction, dependent on the growth time. Burning wood, especially at your cabin, has a high emission rate, so an electric stove might be better, and fairly certainly is if powered by a solar panel.

Sure. But for some number of trees planted, you WILL eventually displace the carbon.

Trees die. Decomposing, or burning, gives off all the carbon they soaked up.

Cut the trees down, make paper out of it, print government regulations and statistics and reports on it, store these in a vault permanently. You have a carbon sink.

That sounds like it was a submission for shithackernewssays.

That comment just made my day :)

This is not true. Much carbon is left behind after burning or decomposition.

This can however take a decades or a few hundres years if not more. Around here they have found logs thousand of years old in the swamps.

> in the swamps

probably because theres not much O2 in the water compared to the atmosphere.