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Tumbulu

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12. But the plants producing the nuts are
Mon Feb 24, 2014, 11:03 PM
Feb 2014

also turning CO2 into oxygen, which we all need. Veggies use huge amounts of water, the row crops less, and tree crops even less per acre. Most of the almonds are on drip systems.

If the water as not being used to grow plants, which sequester carbon, where would we be? Where will we be this year with such a vast area in the west not getting water and thus not growing the plants that we are depending on to take up some of this excess CO2?

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