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Tom Chi: How to Address our Carbon Debt to Heal the Planet

Foresight Institute · talk · Watch on YouTube

Climate policy, solutions & debateEnvironment, agriculture & food systems

What it is

Tom Chi gives the opening talk of a Foresight Institute competition on clean energy and clean air, framing excess CO2 as a carbon debt to repay and discussing large-scale tree planting, including by drone.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters call it a fantastic talk and cite it in climate threads for the carbon debt framing and tree-planting cost estimates.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 2 strong recommendations
  • first 2019, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “gave a fantastic talk on carbon debt”

    Talk on carbon debt and how to pay it down.

    mehrdadn, 2019-06 · Strong recommendation · in “The toll climate change is taking on oceans”

  2. “Agreed, this is an excellent talk.”

    Frames CO2 as debt to repay; tree-planting by drone costed.

    symplee, 2019-06 · Strong recommendation · in “The toll climate change is taking on oceans”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: climate change, reforestation, carbon capture, tom chi, sustainable agriculture

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