Genuine question - are trees a viable method of carbon sequestration?
The root system is about 50% of a tree by weight. So even after fire the root remains in the soil intact. In eons it may turn into the coal.
... got out of areas held occupied or hostage..., and stopped murdering people
There are many disputed and controversial issues and territories in the world. And also in the USA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... .
And well-known people get killed there quite often too. For example, the TikTok star was shot yesterday: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/u...
These are difficult hard problems which could be tackled via dialog and constructive international cooperation.
...at the dictator in Moscow to stop...
People think that it is like an omnipotent sultan in Moscow. It is far from the truth. It is an anarchy there where the government is just starting to tame it a bit.
Imagine an investigator arrives in a small town and everyone is part of the hacking group: mayor, police chief, judge, local elite, etc. It's like stopping drug trade on the Mexican-US border. Besides, these groups are spread into the neighboring countries.
What the US could to stop the illegal hacking activity in those parts is to participate positively in building the legal economy via trade, investment, etc. so that young men and women have other career paths.
What we see now, however, is that the US State Secretary goes on TV quite regularly and talks of his work on destroying their economy via sanctions into a stone age, and that they can do absolutely nothing to the US since their economy is only nukes and oil.
One has to be from really rich family environment to building working relations with others in this way.
Solutions are obvious if one only has the optical power to observe them over the horizon. -- K.A. Arsdall