Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought and Climate Change
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Re: Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought and Climate Change
#2What an incredible feat! A heroic effort for reforestation.
Re: Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought and Climate Change
#3What an incredible feat! A heroic effort for reforestation.
It makes it seem like planting the trillion trees we'd need to arrest climate change might not be out of reach.
Re: Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought and Climate Change
#4How were they watered the next week?
Re: Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought and Climate Change
#5So, this is junk obviously.
But the question is.... Were any tree's planted at all?
Is it 100% propaganda?
If they said 300 million but if it was 50 million, fair enough. Close enough. Equalling India a more developed, stable country 13 times the size would be amazing, unbelievable even, a point of change for Ethiopia, they should get the record.
But I think it'll be zero. Not 10 million, not 1 million, zero (~Less than 100,000).
[edit] I'll raise my estimate to 1 million, I was wrong on zero, there are some first hand reports of some structure and some people did actually planted some trees
https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/cjfqu5/about_35...
[edit] hashtags of a few very chaotic scenes, at 10 million trees planted I'd expect one aerial view of around 10,000 trees planted somewhere -
https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=PlantOurPrint
https://twitter.com/hashtag/%E1%8A%A0%E1%88%A8%E1%8A%95%E1%8...
This is a know propaganda move from the government, what's in question is if they did it (They didn't) to divert the mood of the people, or mostly made it up.
Re: Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought and Climate Change
#6How were they watered the next week?
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Re: Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought and Climate Change
#7How were they watered the next week?
Re: Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought and Climate Change
#8I wish them luck. I'm a sort of history buff and Ethiopia has an amazing history. It's been a state (in various forms and with different names) for more than 2000 years, in a part of the world where such stability has been scarce. It has its own ancient alphabet.
It was the only country in Africa to resist the Scramble for Africa and was only occupied by Italy for less than 10 years (after putting the Italian Army to shame initially... and it was only occupied because it got almost 0 outside help).
This seems like an awesome initiative, but they will need a lot of help. Their population went from 70 million in 2007 to 100 million in 2017. The current forecast is for about 200 million by 2050.
I hope they grow peacefully and without internal conflicts, Africa desperately needs a pole of stability and prosperity in the region.
It's going to be a tough struggle for them!
Re: Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought and Climate Change
#9How were they watered the next week?
Ethipoia, and Africa as a whole, is not Band Aid. Addis Ababa gets more rainfall each year than Washington state.
Re: Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought and Climate Change
#10Not to discourage, but even reforesting entire land that could possibly be covered in forest will not arrest climate change noticeably.
The reason is because forest do not change CO2 levels noticeably, in the long run. The reason is because there is roughly constant amount of carbon in Earths biomass. Planting treas only increases the amonut of biomass by a little bit but has no lasting effect of scrubbing CO2 from atmosphere.
The real solution to climate change is undoing decades of constant addition of CO2 to atmosphere. This requires not only scrubbing CO2 from atmosphere but also sequestering the carbon somehow which means preventing it getting back to carbon cycle.
If you really wanted to make planting trees have an effect you would not only need to plant trees, you would need to regularly cut them (before they burn) and store them somewhere, maybe at the bottom of ocean, from where it will not be released (decomposed, burned, etc.)
Of course, planting trees have other beneficial effects like helping to keep rainwater. It is just important to make sure right kinds of trees (and large variety of them!) are planted to not repeat mistakes that were made in other places.