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No place to plant trees? Has he heard of agroforestry and food forests? https://twitter.com/jtemple/status/1361126082859077637
Bill Gates: your crops should be monocrop and GMO, your beef should be synthetic, your trees shouldn't exist
Also Bill Gates: I'm a climate hero
Also Bill Gates: I'm a climate hero
This quote denotes a fundamentally technocratic worldview. What does he think existed on the land before monocropping ag?
Just like the Windows operating system where the program icons are separated: Ag over here, trees over there, people crowded into the cities...
Just like the Windows operating system where the program icons are separated: Ag over here, trees over there, people crowded into the cities...
Another way to put it https://twitter.com/MattPirkowski/status/1361166513948876800
You can't separate climate change from the health of living systems more broadly (another technocratic tendency). How much carbon can we sequester with trees? Unclear. But they provide many other ecosystem services https://twitter.com/cognazor/status/1291380990292766720
This is a good point. Planting monoculture tree farms is not the solution (which is maybe why he rejects it), we need to restore ecosystems in an integrated way with human livelihoods. You don't hear Gates talking about this https://twitter.com/musicofthecubes/status/1361175624191258624
I'm familiar with this in my prior graduate student life in a traditional ag econ program, they call it 'structural transformation' https://twitter.com/musicofthecubes/status/1361180916526288897
