https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/magazine/american-chestnut.html?referringSource=articleShare
one way to combat excessive carbon in earth;s atmosphere ?
an excerpt from the article
Last May, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere hit, for the first time in human history, 414.8 parts per million. The nonwater weight of the American chestnut, like other trees, is roughly half carbon. Few things you could plant on a piece of land would suck carbon out of the air faster than a growing chestnut tree. With this in mind, an essay last year in The Wall Street Journal suggested, “Let’s farm chestnuts again.”
Deforestation of the earth is the big other problem.....
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