Many more trees could be planted without encroaching on crop land or urban areas
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Re: Many more trees could be planted without encroaching on crop land or urban areas
#2Where can one donate to an organization that plants trees?
Re: Many more trees could be planted without encroaching on crop land or urban areas
#3Where can one donate to an organization that plants trees?
this is one: https://edenprojects.org/
If you know tentree shirts, that's who they donate to.
Re: Many more trees could be planted without encroaching on crop land or urban areas
#4You can plant trees at $USD0.10 per tree at trees.org
Re: Many more trees could be planted without encroaching on crop land or urban areas
#5That means a global / multinational movement against governments cutting trees (eg for lucrative construction deals) is needed.
Re: Many more trees could be planted without encroaching on crop land or urban areas
#6Given the right approach, this is also probably the only way to tackle climate change that is self-sustaining. Because trees reproduce. And they constantly search for ways to adapt to their environment in order to survive and reproduce.
Human technology can't do that yet.
Re: Many more trees could be planted without encroaching on crop land or urban areas
#7That means a global / multinational movement against governments cutting trees (eg for lucrative construction deals) is needed.
Buy a little property and plant some trees, doesnt have to be that expensive. Thats what i did.
Re: Many more trees could be planted without encroaching on crop land or urban areas
#8That means a global / multinational movement against governments cutting trees (eg for lucrative construction deals) is needed.
Massive reforestation would eventually reduce cost of wood construction, allowing harvesting and replanting to sequester even more carbon.
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#9Where can one donate to an organization that plants trees?
There are tree planting orgs like https://trees.org/
There are also very effective tree saving charities like "cool earth"
Re: Many more trees could be planted without encroaching on crop land or urban areas
#10Interesting – we need more of such studies.
Check out Drawdown [0] for other interventions with quantified costs/benefits.
Economists widely agree that carbon pricing is the most effective way to fix climate change [1], and fee-and-dividend implementations are the most viable politically (there's a bill before Congress now [2]).
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/business/economic-science...
[2] https://citizensclimatelobby.org/energy-innovation-and-carbo...