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Swenrekcahtoday at 6:48 PM1 replyview on HN

Those are real words, that’s true. The following however is anywhere from not true to wild speculation without any factual basis.

>Global responsibility sounds like the direct opposite of self-determination.

>Some United Nations NGO bureaucrats being brought in to administer it, without acknowledging local knowledge. Getting UNESCO to administer it is not "honoring indigenous traditions"

>Also "store carbon", is more cargo cult pop science.

>They are probably trying to refer to trapping and reducing carbon dioxide emissions, but this is a misleading way of doing so.


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lysacetoday at 7:25 PM

> Those are real words, that’s true. [...]

Yeah that's a strawman.