“Are we the idiots?” – Bill Gates on Planting Trees [Video]

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Correction to what I say about trees splitting carbon dioxide: They don’t split the molecule, it’s rather that they transform it, together with water, into a bigger sugar molecule and release oxygen in that process. The result is the same, but the molecule doesn’t have to be split. Sorry about that!

Bill Gates has recently been under fire following an interview in which he said that planting trees won’t save us from climate change. Is he right? Is this just another quote taken out of context? What does the science say? Let’s have a look.

Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aax0848

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