What is smarter, spending years researching and arguing the best way to do this, or using the natural process all over, and adapting the best practice locally,

What is smarter, spending years researching and arguing the best way to do this, or using the natural process all over, and adapting the best practice locally, to try to solve climate change? Some places can plant trees, others grasslands. Or whatever, but it seems like there is a lot of money to create an industrial process that can be commercialized instead of just doing the work naturally...