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Kelp & Climate

As the new President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take office in January, he plans to usher in a new administration and agenda that aims to bring large changes to how America handles climate change. Part of his plan includes “an enforcement mechanism to achieve net-zero emissions no later than 2050” (Plan for Climate Change, 2020). Bringing a nation to net-zero emissions takes more than just talk. It involves compensating for existing carbon dioxide emission sources like cows and industrials, greenhouse gas emitters that won’t simply disappear in the next thirty years. It goes beyond simply reducing our emissions. To accomplish this, we will need to see significant methods of removing these emissions from the atmosphere. One such method, and the focus of this article today, is the farming of kelp.