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Bill McKibben explains what individuals can do to win the climate fight. Together.
By Jessica McKenzie, January 15, 2024
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Keywords: climate crisis, energy politics, environmental activism, fossil fuels, global warming, media, movements
Topics: Climate Change
Jessica McKenzie
Jessica McKenzie is an associate editor at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Her work has been published in The New York Times, National Geographic, Audubon Magazine, Backpacker, The Counter, and... Read More
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Bill, you have to be careful saying things like forest fires emitting several times more CO2 tan the country does from industry and vehicles. Most (70-80%) of the carbon sequestered by trees lies in the trunks. In the aftermath of a wildfire, many of those trunks are left standing. It is still possible for a caring forestry industry to harvest those trunks for lumber, thus securing that carbon for many more decades or centuries.