The case for paying ranchers to raise trees instead of cattle | Patrick Brown and Michael Eisen

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Economists' estimates of the annual investment in renewable energy systems required to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 range from $3.5tn to more than $9tn a year.
42% : For all their hard, dangerous work, 70% lose money and, excluding government support, their average net income per acre was less than 50 cents.

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