Bob Novella

They also said that previously they thought that grasslands didn't really factor in much into sequestering carbon, but they found out that they hold about 40% of this fungal infrastructure.

The grasslands are actually important because they were focusing on forests and things like that, but they just looked over grasslands and they realized, wow, we can't ignore grasslands either because they are a part of this.

Yeah.

The researchers said that, you know, conservation efforts have been very surface-level oriented, you know, like protect forests and count animals and monitor carbon there.

But once we start drawing the maps of these networks and get a real understanding of where the densities are, they found that there's a huge amount of plants functioning.

It's happening underground.

You think, oh, the plant grows above ground, just gets a couple of things from the soil, and everything we care about is above ground.

But that is completely wrong.

And this is a pretty big perspective change, I think, moving forward.

I mean, you know, it's fine for companies to want to make money, you know, because lots of companies have great products that they give people want.

And that's the world.

But, of course, you know, this whole model, it doesn't matter even if it worked.

It's still an MLM.

But it doesn't work, right?

Georgie, I mean, you were saying that, you know, there isn't anything here that is revolutionary in any way.

It's the stuff that they've collected a group of different methods already that people currently use.

Yeah.

Well, it sounds like they're making, you know, they made money as well.

Like maybe they got paid to put this up there.

All right.