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Mechanical thinning does much of the work of prescribed burning methodically by hand: cutting down small trees, removing brush, pruning the lower limbs of larger trees so fire can’t climb up into the canopy.

You're not cutting down the Amazon in order to feed people.

Reducing the intake of ultra-processed food, whether made with seed oils or not, would have more health benefits than simply cutting down on seed oil.

Part of the group’s task — cutting down the number of federal regulations — would be providing “sound industrial logic for mass head-count reductions across the federal bureaucracy,” Mr. Musk and Mr. Ramaswamy wrote.

The consortium is yet to release any figures showing whether the technology is cutting down levels of fraud.