{"id":2022423,"date":"2023-09-05T16:13:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T20:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-gates-funded-group-plans-to-strip-70-million-acres-of-forest-to-save-the-planet\/"},"modified":"2023-09-05T16:19:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T20:19:44","slug":"bill-gates-funded-group-plans-to-strip-70-million-acres-of-forest-to-save-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-gates-funded-group-plans-to-strip-70-million-acres-of-forest-to-save-the-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates-backed organization aims to conserve the planet by clearing 70 million acres of forest."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbill-gates-funded-group-plans-to-strip-70-million-acres-of-forest-to-save-the-planet%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2022423&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Bill Gates-Funded Group Plans to Strip 70 Million Acres of Forest to \u2064Save the Planet<\/h2>\n<p>How\u200d is this for a business plan?<\/p>\n<p>Invest millions for\u200b a forestry process designed to provide thousands of\u2063 years of protection to the planet.<\/p>\n<p>But you\u2019re not exactly sure of how the process will work. \u2063Or what the \u200bresult will be.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds\u200b like Nancy Pelosi saying a bill should be passed in Congress so we \u2063can find out what\u2019s in it.<\/p>\n<p>Yet,\u200c this\u200d is not a\u2062 government project. Rather, a private company \u2014 Kodama Systems \u2014 wants to bury dead trees along with leftover wood\u2064 from logging so the tree wastes don\u2019t \u2062decay and\u2064 warm the\u200d planet.<\/p>\n<p>Kodama has raised $6.6\u2064 million for this offbeat project, including funding from Bill Gates\u2019 Breakthrough Energy Ventures.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/christopherhelman\/2023\/07\/28\/chop-down-forests-to-save-the-planet-maybe-not-as-crazy-as-it-sounds\/?sh=1fddc4b211fc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forbes<\/a>, the U.S. Forest\u200c Service plans on thinning out roughly \u201c70 million acres of western forests, mostly in California.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s another idea to control the weather for Christmas Day, 2099,\u200b give \u2064or take a day or a decade.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Gates\u2019 money, of course, is funding the idea\u2063 of \u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bill-gates-savior-complex-spirals-control-funds-sun-dimming-plan-save-human-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blocking the sun<\/a> to perhaps ensure a white Christmas for Cleveland at the end of\u2064 this century.<\/p>\n<p>Haven\u2019t we learned anything\u200c from all the tampering with nature and delicate world systems in the COVID lockdowns, \u200csocial and economic disruptions?<\/p>\n<p>And spending millions to put trees in a hole in the ground as though\u200b that will make a difference seems extravagant.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, Gates is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gamestop-stock-plummets-but-reddit-rebellion-sparking-war-on-big-money-investors\/\" title=\"GameStop Stock Plummets But \u2018Reddit Rebellion\u2019 Sparking War On Big Money Investors\">smart guy<\/a>. And as we\u2019re increasingly seeing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eat-this-exact-food-combo-for-prostate-health\/\" title=\"Eat This Exact Food Combo for Prostate Health\">smart guys<\/a> with their smart ideas \u2064can be hazardous.<\/p>\n<p>Kodama Systems has been quietly planning its planet-saving form of forestry in the small town of Sonora, California,\u2063 in the \u200cSierra Nevada foothills, according <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2022\/12\/15\/1065016\/a-stealth-effort-to-bury-wood-for-carbon-removal-has-just-raised-millions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MIT Technology \u2062Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is to use\u2062 trees to suck carbon \u2062dioxide out of the atmosphere, which,\u200d of course, \u200dis how oxygen is replenished as the trees make the exchange.<\/p>\n<p>But trees die and their decay gives off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/france-isnt-meeting-its-own-paris-climate-accord-commitments\/\" title=\"France Isn\u2019t Meeting Its Own Paris Climate Accord Commitments\">carbon dioxide<\/a> so all their effort \u200cto\u200b save the planet is \u2064diminished, perhaps lost.<\/p>\n<p>So Kodama Systems wants to\u2063 harvest and sell lumber from forests, then, instead of \u200cthe usual \u200cpractice of leaving noncommercial leftover wood to rot and spoil Christmas Future, remove it and bury it, allowing the rotting to occur underground.<\/p>\n<p>That will keep carbon\u2063 out of the atmosphere for thousands of years, they say.<\/p>\n<p>Great idea, right? Maybe not.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBiomass burial has the potential to become a low-cost, high-scale approach for carbon removal,\u201d according to Joanna Klitze of \u200dStripe, a payments company\u200d involved in the project.<\/p>\n<p>But Klitze added: \u201cThere \u2063is a need for further investigation into \u2063its long-term durability.\u201d That comment coming from an individual in a company that has invested a $250,000 grant into the project.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carbon-direct.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carbon Direct<\/a>, a company that helps businesses reduce their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-goes-full-green-new-deal-tyrant-carbon-emissions-threaten-the-very-existence-of-our-planet-video\/\" title=\"Biden Goes Full Green New Deal Tyrant: Carbon Emissions Threaten \u201cthe Very Existence of our Planet\u201d (VIDEO)\">carbon emissions<\/a>, has \u200ba scientist involved\u200c in carbon \u2062removal through biomass projects \u2063like that of Kodama Systems, Daniel Sanchez.<\/p>\n<p>He, too signals \u200dcaution. \u201cWe have to recognize that the science of wood harvesting and storage is still evolving,\u201d Sanchez\u2064 said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost importantly, our understanding of\u2062 what drives or \u200ddoesn\u2019t drive decomposition \u2063of wood needs to be refined.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So\u200c this is an ambitious, \u200cexpensive project to save the planet but there is doubt if \u2064it will even work.<\/p>\n<p>Why are all these smart people <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/waste-time-scientists-now-claiming-climate-change-affecting-major-league-baseball\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pursuing \u2064dubious\u2062 projects<\/a> like \u200cthis \u2062or, \u2062for that matter, foisting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fan-electric-cars-takes-one-road-trip-ends-exposing-bad-now-wont-buy-one\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">electric \u200ccars<\/a> upon us\u2063 or \u2062trying to take away\u2062 our gas stoves and ceiling fans?<\/p>\n<p>Is everyone having the \u2064same bad dream I am?<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Kodama Systems\u2019 efforts may meet opposition from, of all people, environmentalists. Like Earthjustice, for \u200cinstance, (motto: \u201cBecause\u2062 the earth needs a good lawyer\u2019). <a href=\"https:\/\/earthjustice.org\/press\/2022\/earthjustice-responds-to-barrassomanchin-proposal-jeopardizing-vital-mature-and-old-growth-forests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Earthjustice is opposed<\/a> \u200bto commercial logging of \u200bold-growth forests.<\/p>\n<p>Old-growth trees would\u200b probably be the\u200d targets of Kodama Systems, since such trees would have\u2064 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-gates-funded-group-plans-to-strip-70-million-acres-of-forest-to-save-the-planet\/\" title=\"Bill Gates-backed organization aims to conserve the planet by clearing 70 million acres of forest.\">shorter \u2064life sucking carbon dioxide<\/a> out of the air. Earthjustice would have a problem with \u200bthe\u2064 felling of such\u2062 trees.<\/p>\n<p>And MIT Technology Review has asked:\u200b What about carbon emissions originating from\u2064 cutting, transporting and burying large \u2064numbers of tree?<\/p>\n<p>Also, would Kodama Systems be new planting trees? There\u200d have been incentives for companies to \u200cgain carbon credits\u200b by planting\u200d trees (my wife and I half-joked about planting a few trees on our property to cash in on the nonsense).<\/p>\n<p>But\u2062 like \u200dso many things with short half-lives in \u200cthe wonderland of environmentalists, tree planting \u200bfor credits is now looked at with scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>Because the made-up figures \u2062for carbon \u200dcredits are showing evidence that they are, well, made up.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because\u2063 not all trees store carbon equally so if you\u200b get more credit\u200b than you should for \u200cthe amount of carbon a\u2064 tree stores, it\u2019s not fair, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2021\/04\/29\/1017811\/california-climate-policy-carbon-credits-cause-co2-pollution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2021 story<\/a> by MIT Technology Review.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s further complicated by a differing number of angels known to\u2064 dance on different types of trees, which, of course, I made\u2064 up,\u2064 but everything else seems to\u200b be, \u200bso why not?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/white-house-opens-door-bill-gates-style-sun-dimming-plan-fight-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill Gates and Others Who Know Best<\/a> \u2063are spending millions to fight alleged climate \u200dchange.<\/p>\n<p>Because, we\u2019re told, science definitely declares <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/desantis-cuts-off-fox-news-moderator-middle-climate-change-stunt-not-school-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the planet is at risk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But science \u2014 which is based upon \u2064observation \u2014\u2062 can\u2019t say that because there are two overwhelming variables \u200bin the \u2064Earth\u2019s climate that cannot be controlled for\u200b in observation \u2014 the seas and the sun.<\/p>\n<p>Both \u2014 seas\u200c and sun \u2014 are going to do their thing even \u200dthough <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/xi-jinping-calls-bill-gates-old-friend-beijing-meeting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill Gates\u2019<\/a> money \u2062is working on fixing the latter. And that should be\u200b enough to make the angels\u2062 laugh.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bill-gates-funded-group-plans-strip-70-million-acres-forest-save-planet\/\">Bill Gates-Funded \u2062Group Plans to Strip 70 Million Acres of Forest to Save the \u2064Planet<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How about this business plan? Invest millions in a forestry process to safeguard the planet for thousands of years. Uncertain about the process and its outcome? 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