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Episode 663: Money trees

NPR. Nov 13, 2015

1. Reporting about  The trees in amazon forest are burned to create farm land
global warming  Lourdes Garcia reported.
 Travel from DC to RIO and then 3000 miles in car, then rent an airplane and a
2. Possible solution: motorbike to get into de forest. Use a lot of fuel.
carbon offsets  There are thousands of acres of forest burning.
 Burning fossil fuel generates carbon dioxide, so we need to pay an extra for
3. You can plant this use.
trees to erase your  Cheryl Sturges. California. Contribute to minimize the emissions of CO2.
carbon print  Solution to emission of coal plants: plant trees. Trees breaths CO2.
 52 million trees in one coal plant in Connecticut (Leucaena leucocephala)
4. The people don’t  Total cost: US$2 mill. 40 years of coal plant emissions go away
change their  The program of carbon offsets sometimes gets messy because come farmers
behavior don’t use it right (plant fruit trees, doesn’t breathe the same amount of C02)
 Carbon Tax. A better solution
5. It´s no so easy like  88 trees to travel from DC to amazon forest = US$50
pay for carbon
offsets for burn
fossil fuels and
disappear the guilt

 The carbon footprint of all of us it’s difficult to erase, but we need to do our best to reduce the CO2
emissions in our daily tasks.
 One solution is to plant more easily growing trees, another one is to buy carbon offsets, but the
better of all is to use alternative sources of energy.
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