Carbon sequestration

As I've already pointed out I work for an environmental consulting firm. So I have lots of exposure to different things people/ companies are doing to "save" the environment. Cracks me up, since we're trying to shut the barn door after the horses are already LONG gone. One such area is carbon sequestration. We have quiet a few companies looking into sequestration, especially injecting the stuff into deep saline aquifers. okay, so I've come across a few projects where the companies are proposing to um, get this, CUT DOWN TREES, so they can drill injection wells to sequester carbon dioxide. Huh, wha?!! Okay, let me get this straight, you want to cut down trees, that NATURALLY capture CO2, so you can drill a hole in the ground to... capture CO2. um, okay, sure, you go right ahead and do that. really? seriously? To my way of thinking (yes that is a totally redneck/country thing to say) you should be planting MORE trees, not cutting them down! Good grief! Stop building the blasted shopping malls and strip malls that no one can afford to shop at and plant some blasted trees!! Stop building housing developments with their McMansions that people don't need nor can they afford, and plant some trees. Or how about this novel concept, LEAVE the trees that are growing ALONE!!! hmm, maybe that would work. Go to areas that are abandoned, falling down, and a public nuisance and demolish them, and ... you guessed it, plant some trees. People really need to start thinking about working smarter, not harder. I mean come on, really?!