Josh Clark

Yeah, definitely the hat guy for sure.

It was cool.

So, but yeah, so mangroves are the champion of carbon sequestration, so much so that they are four times more efficient than terrestrial vegetation at storing carbon.

What?

which makes them like a bona fide carbon sink, mangrove forests are.

And again, it's because there's just no decay.

There's no fungus.

There's no rot.

All the stuff, all the vegetation that dies and falls down into the muck just gets stuck there and covered over and doesn't get a chance to break down.

So as long as you don't dig up or destroy a mangrove forest and cut up the peat to use it as cheap fuel, you've got a really good carbon sink on your hands.

That's mind-boggling because if you just hear the figures on how frequently and how much rainforest is cut down, the idea that mangrove forest is outpacing it is pretty nuts.

But apparently, Myanmar is the current hotspot for mangrove deforestation.

Between 1996 and 2016, Myanmar cut down 60% of its mangals.

Just gone.

Part of the problem is you can restore a mangrove forest, fortunately.

We'll talk about some people who do that.

But it can take a while.

And sometimes when you restore some mangroves, you put the seedlings in, and a typhoon or a cyclone or a hurricane comes along and just washes them all away.

So if your timing's wrong, it might take a very long time for you to restore a mangrove forest.

So it's not something you want to cut down willy-nilly, basically.