The World Economic Forum (WEF) started the one trillion tree initiative, to have at least one trillion trees growing in the planet by 2030; to capture carbon from the air. They are using any means necessary to achieve this goal. Their climate cult has an odd way of reducing carbon from the atmosphere. One of this is by recklessly tossing balls of carbon in the air in Kenya. So what are charcoal (carbon) seedballs?

The seedballs are tree seeds placed inside a small ball of charcoal dust, and this outer biochar coating (that is rich in carbon) is supposed to protect the seeds from predators until they germinate.

First, let us watch this short clip provided by the World Economic Forum three years ago.

Afribundance found that this initiative was a huge failure. We are here to call out this bluff. The charcoal seedballs were easily carried away by water during heavy rains or flash flooding. Some of the seedballs dropped in very dry areas, hardened and never cracked open at all, most seeds died from the scorching sun and hot soil.

The few young seedlings that survived and germinate, were also susceptible to destruction from various wild factors especially herbivores, high insolation, strong winds in these arid and semi-arid areas, heavy downpour etc. Here is the joke, the seedballs Kenya company has shared video of harvester ants, weavers and monkeys ignoring the charcoal seedballs. Well, guess what? Heavy rain, sunshine, strong winds buried the seeds into oblivion.

The company boasts of having ‘distributed’ 35, 480 000 seedballs since 2016. Where are the trees to show for it? Afribundance could not find a handful of these charcoal seedballs seedlings in the wild. On the contrary, we found that the Maasai and local indigenous communities were already doing an excellent job at planting the acacia trees in the ground with help from some organizations. Their trees were successfully thriving on the ground. Why mess a good thing that was already successfully working? Why not direct those funds to these indigenous communities who are great custodians of their habitats?

A great observation was raised on Research Gate by Professor Bruno Borsari. He posits that biochar production requires kilns where the temperatures need to be maintained at 400-700 degrees Celsius for several hours, generating carbon gases and a lot of thermal energy. What are they burning to keep the temperatures that high?

Professor Borsari questions, are biochar making systems truly capable of sequestering more carbon than the carbon they release in the atmosphere? He also asked can you provide evidence that biochar making contributes to a mitigation of global climate change? These are excellent questions, we shared the same sentiments exactly.