Bill Gates’s organization, Breakthrough Energy, has plowed $6.6 million into the project led by Kodama Systems to cut trees. The US Forest Service plans to thin out 70 million acres of Western forest, mostly in California, extracting more than 1 billion tons of ‘bone-dried biomass’ over the next 10 years. After the trees have been chopped down, they will be buried to reduce global warming. Kodama claims that burying the trees will prevent them from “spewing” carbon back into the air when they decompose.
While removing dead trees and brush from dry forests to prevent fires is sensible, burying the trees, instead of using the lumber, is very curious. The amount of trees to be removed is also dubious. The scheme is a money-making business as the company will get money to create carbon offsets.
Critics are speculating that Gates’ proposal to cut down and bury 70 million acres of trees will create a lumber shortage leading to a housing shortage that aligns perfectly with the World Economic Forum’s vision of the future where people live in small pods and eat bugs while the elites live in luxury.
Americans, and people worldwide, are growing weary of this tech geek’s attempts to block the sun, genetically engineer mosquitoes, buy up farmland, control populations, vaccinate everything that moves, and now, eliminate forests by cutting down trees and burying them.
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