A pair of biologists have a plan to make hundreds of millions of dollar trading carbon credits in Europe.
“”An alluring idea,” they write, would be to sell the carbon indirectly sequestered by the sea otter protected kelp forest “as a way to pay for their reintroduction and management or to compensate losses to shell fisheries from sea otter predation.””
“They estimate that the CO2 removed from the atmosphere via the otter-kelp link could be worth between $205 million and $408 million on the European Carbon Exchange.”
How are they going to do this? By increasing the number of sea otters so the otters eat a lot more sea urchins and therefore the sea urchins won’t eat as much kelp. Sure, otters are cute. But why are the biologists taking sides?
To make a lot of money.
Notice the loaded language in the article:
” ravenous sea urchins”
” sea urchins graze voraciously on living kelp” !!!
Living kelp? Does anyone ever attack cows for “grazing voraciously on living grass”?
You can see how climate change and carbon credits have corrupted the thinking of those poor biologists who are now choosing sides to make big money.
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