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When it comes to carbon credits, what’s a whale worth?

It’s easy to put a value on gold or oil, but to combat climate change maybe we need to put a price tag on nature. Wired staff writer Gregory Barber joins host Krys Boyd to discuss a new way of looking at carbon credits – assigning monetary value to creatures that help offset carbon emissions – and the ways this strategy might support countries that are disproportionately affected by a warming plant. His article is “The Trillion-Dollar Auction to Save the World.”