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: Pretpostavila sam da će ovoliko trebati da drveće upije ugljen-dioksid putem fotosinteze, pretvori ga u šećere, pošalje ga dole do korenja i možda, pretpostavljala sam, prebaci taj ugljenik pod zemljom do svojih suseda.