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it looks like i'm guilty of having never really thought and done some research about this and i'm a bit ashamed to admit i fell in this trap and used to think forests and trees are the most important pieces in the system.

I don't get why media has been fixating so much on trees and forests (Amazonia!) without even mentioning ocean's role in this.

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Click bait sells, therefore outrage sells. And how do you film an ocean absorbing(or not) CO2.

But you can film people cutting trees, and protests, and you can blame companies.

And the average person won't understand much about the chemistry of the oceans, the average person can barely read.

(UN literacy numbers are the equiv of a grade 6 reading capability. And again, average grade 6, not bright students).

Probably because you can plant more trees but not more ocean.

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