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Hemp absorbs carbon at a rate of about 10 cubic tones per hectare per year...

We need to capture 20 billion tons of co2 a year to keep co2 levels from going up...

In order to, at a minimum, level warming to where the paris agreement established, we need 2 billion hectares of hemp...

Globally de-desertification programs have set a target of 1.5 billion hectares of greening, for which hemp would be ideal because it has minimal resource requirements, grows fast, the roots go deep, and it scrubs heavy metals and other toxic substances from the substrate in which its grown.....

Archaeological finds indicate that hemp is native to all of Europe, Asia, the Levant, North Africa and the Americas

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