The big thing that was just touched on by the article about absorption of atmospheric carbon, is the question of what plants and ecosystems do the best job of removing CO2 from the atmosphere? Can we encourage increased absorption and/or protect the best absorption areas?
This issue is probably the single biggest possible way that Alberta in particular can help with CO2 emissions. People have, often, mentioned that our contributions to the global CO2 balance sheet are minuscule, and they are technically correct, but the percent of land area that Alberta has is NOT minuscule. Especially when you can take Alberta's learnings and multiply it by the area of Canada. If we want to be serious about Climate Change, then we should be actually serious about it, and learn everything we can.
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