english: I figured it would take this long for the trees to suck up the CO2 through photosynthesis, turn it into sugars, send it down into their roots, and maybe, I hypothesized, shuttle that carbon belowground to their neighbors.
non_english: Predvidevala sem, da bodo v tem času drevesa posrkala CO2 v fotosintezi, ga spremenila v sladkorje, ga poslala dol do korenin, in morda, sem predvidevala, poslala ogljik pod tlemi k sosedom.