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8. Is the Future of Farming in the Ocean?

The Freakonomics Radio Book Club

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The Scalability Option for Kelp

Soy has an even worse brand name than agriculture because why? I mean, it's associated with massive monoculture. It's like the example of global agrave business that is impacting the climate in a negative way. But there are some similarities. We can weave it into existing industries and have a really positive a fect. And if the kelp is got a lot of bio fowling on it, that's really good for the lambase farmer,. Because it's full of these micro nutrients and nitrogen and carbon. Then we do bio plastics. There's some great companies creating packaging straws, and they're all compostable. The last income stream we see is blue carbon

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