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Can planting trees really stop climate change? | Thomas Crowther

The TED Interview

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We've Got a Carbon Market, Right?

i would like to ask you about the economics of this a bit, because like thinking of trees and forests as a carbon sequestration solution. It looks like it can be really hard to get to nt zero by 20 50. Almost certainly going to have to spend money capturing carbon from the atmosphere. But in forests right now, you can buy carbon offsets atstead of five to ten dollars a ton or less. And i see no more valuable thing that we can do than getting going with nature.

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