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I think you are completely mistaken in your endeavor. Please plant trees and care for the soil, since your scheme will never do anything for biodiversity. You are just trying to cut us all off from the source of life.

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I appreciate your comment & we hope to convince you otherwise as we get more process data from getting to pilot scale & beyond. Biodiversity is already being harmed today by the droughts, fires, floods, human migration patterns, etc. caused by ongoing global warming due to anthropogenic CO2 in the atmosphere, and this harm may likely only get worse in the decades to come without the development of solutions that make an attempt to reverse things.

Foreseeable economic constraints of incentive structures provide no capacity for handling a direct bypass of the natural process of life. The form of business you are creating short-circuits the ecosystem because the free market economy does not possess the intelligence that is built into the natural process.

Please understand, this is not as simple as you think.

*deforestation due to climate-influenced movement of arable land e.g. desertification also harms biodiversity as well

So, what are YOU doing for biodiversity ganzuul?

I keep the pollution that my workplace produces down and avoiding unnecessary consumerism & plastic packaging. Voting with my wallet for the green premium.

Can't we do both approaches?

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