On washington journal. Republican of arkansas in the member of Natural Resources committee in the house. Also a supporter of was being called the trees act. An effort that was made more public by President Trump supported at the dominos World Economic forum. What does this act propose. This is an act, to put the tree across the globe. By 2050. Trees. Trillion it is a whole lot more though, our biggest full that we have, as far as mitigating climate issues, and will meet utilize those for us and keep from sustainable and working in active, really have the best tool that is out there that is widespread, natural and is very economical to have this carbon atmosphere from the forest. You come to us as a forrester yourself. The only graduate of yale, with the master of four street there. This mustve been sort of like music to your ears when you heard the president getting behind this effort. It. It is something that is near and dear to me. If you look at the planet, theres about treat 3 tril
Called the trillion trees act,s an effort that was made more um public by president trumps support of that at the davos World Economic forum. Tell us, congressman, what does this act propose . Well, this is an act that does just what it says, plant trees across the globe by 2050, for the u. S. To do our share oft that. Lott s a whole more, though. Our biggest tool that we have are forestsnd kee as far as mitg climate issues. When we utilize those forests and keep them sustainable and working and active, we royal have the best tool thats out there thats widespread, its natural, and its very economical to sequester carbon out of the atmosphere with fr forests. You come to this as a forester yourself, the only one in congress, a graduate of yale, a masters in forestry there. This must have been music to your ears when you heard the president getting behind this re effort. Yeah,is abo its something t near and dear too me. If you look at the planet, takn theres 3 billion tree the in the pla
Them sustainable and working and active, we really have the best tool that is out there that is widespread, its natural, and it is very economical to sequester carbon out of the atmosphere. You come to this as a forester yourself, the only one in congress, graduate of yale, master of forestry there must have been music to your ears when you heard the president getting behind this. Its near and dear to me. Look at the planet theres 3 trillion trees on the planet. We have 300 billion of them here in the u. S. And we do a good job of taking care of our forests here. We can always do better and thats part of what is in the bill. Not only to plant a lot of trees but also to take care of the forests we have. And then the neat thing about trees is they produce wood, which by its raw weight is 50 pure carbon so when we harvest a tree and make a product the car been says in wood for as long as the structure is there. This table, part of the wood, you see wood around the studio here, that carbon
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People in the room. I work in nutrition and hearing your presentation i can understand the economic advantages of having an organized commodity market toward Risk Management and stabilizing prices. But i was wondering if you had any thoughts on the health i implications. I have been told the importance of diversity in the diet. And that goes against what we have been taught to think. Where you producing grains with higher yield, but everybody person has to eat a balanced diet. Do you have thoughts on the riskmanagement tools having a positive for Health Implications. That is an interesting questions. I feel like you know more about this than i do. I think one way to frame this discussion is to think about i dont think that Health Implications have factored into the Health Commodities but when i look back at what is going on throughout the democrat a decades the Health Issues have been left out all together. It is strictly about pricing. The most interesting things have to do with scand