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    Roots rot too. Otherwise the ground underneath forests would have hundreds of meters of accumulated root mass built up over the millennia.

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      Yes they do. But they stay underground, and if the soil remains undisturbed the carbon stays trapped underground.

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        Decay turns carbon into carbon dioxide, a gas. Unless it’s injected into deep geological structures it doesn’t stay underground.