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Episode 663: Money Trees - Coggle Diagram
Episode 663: Money Trees
NPR's reporting team
To report on the environment
Does the travel even really worth it?
Thousand of miles
Hundreds of gallons of gases
All sort of motor transportations was taken
"while destroying the environment to do report about people who are destroying the environment."
Travel to amazon rain forest
Started feeling guilty
dilemma
CARBON OFFSET
Pay to reduce carbon emission
Is this scam?
Undo environmental damage with a click of mouse???
Sharron from New York
History of working at coal fire power plant
coined the term carbon offset
how she came up with the term carbon offset
plant trees to reduce co2
52 million trees for 10 years for one coal plant
no, you dont need a specific location to plant those trees, just pay plantation farmers elsewhere to plant those trees
no room for 52 million trees
a specific tree,
Leucaena
leucocephala
plant trees in the parks outside of the coal plant
Carbon as a curreny
as a commodity
so that you can trade and conserve
in theory, pay someone to plant trees to reduce carbon offset
ASESS tree planting program
food shortage cos of leucaena
unexpected conqeuences
conflicts, money distributed unequally
people literally becoming paying for more carbon emission