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Bill Gates Calls Tree Planting 'Complete Nonsense' as Climate Solution, Argues for Technology Instead
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In a September 2023 interview with The Times ahead of his book 'How to Avoid a Climate Disaster' press tour, Bill Gates stated that tree-planting campaigns promoted as mass climate solutions were 'complete nonsense' and 'a scam' unless accompanied by rigorous, permanent carbon accounting. Gates argued that the land required to offset global emissions through afforestation would consume an area larger than the continental United States, and that the focus should instead be on zero-carbon energy, green cement and steel, and direct air capture technologies he funds through Breakthrough Energy.
Source: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bill-gates-tree-planting-climate-crisis-complete-nonsense-scam
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