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c7b 23 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for fi...

So 20% of the trees get planted later or maybe never? How is that better?

hahahaa 23 days ago [–]

If you want a credit you need to plant 5x the trees under this system.

c7b 22 days ago | [–]

Ok. But what about just making the credits 5x more expensive without requiring monstrous bookkeeping of tree populations and their associated credits over centuries?

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