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Pretty sure what y'all are talking about already exists and it's called running bamboo. Grows aggressively fast, spreads quickly, and pretty successfully invasive.

Yes, the best way out of human hubris is more human hubris!

Genetically modifying plants has saved millions, if not billions of people (https://allthatsinteresting.com/norman-borlaug-green-revolut...). Decrying it as an inherently foolish practice is silly.

Humans have been modifying wild plants to work better for us and worse for themselves since before written history.

It doesn't have to be engineered for aggressive growth to be engineered for greater carbon capture.

Aren’t growth and carbon capture practically the same thing?

Aggressive growth doesn't have to mean aggressive reproduction, it could mean fast growing giant redwoods being farmed in different climates.

Thanks for being clearer than I was.

If Monsanto could invent terminator seeds for their products I don't see why the same couldn't be done for trees specializing in carbon capture.