“California has 33,000,000 acres of forest land. It's about a 100,000,000 acres in total land. Forests make up about a third of our land.”
Friedberg proposes engineered seaweed that pulls carbon from atmosphere and sinks to ocean floor as climate solution.
“When it gets heavy, sinks to the bottom of the ocean and it literally just pulls carbon out of the atmosphere and drops to these 40,000 foot deep or, you know, 4,000 foot deep kind of wells we have already built around 70% of planet Earth. We have the tools to do that.”
Friedberg proposes engineering seaweed that absorbs carbon and sinks to ocean depths covering 70% of Earth.
“When it gets heavy, sinks to the bottom of the ocean and it literally just pulls carbon out of the atmosphere and drops to these 40,000 foot deep or, you know, 4,000 foot deep kind of wells we have already built around 70% of planet Earth.”
Friedberg argues industrialization of agriculture solved food crises but increased carbon, energy and land footprints.
“So the industrialization of agriculture has largely supported these crises and and resolved these crises for humanity, but the industrialization of agriculture has also driven us into a higher carbon footprint, a higher energy footprint, a higher land footprint.”
Friedberg describes a Chinese team that synthesized starch from atmospheric carbon two years ago using chemo-enzymatic systems.
“And what they did is they created a chemo enzymatic system, meaning chemical and then enzymes, that could synthesize starch from atmospheric carbon.”