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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

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Post by MichaelApproved »

kleiba wrote: post #120
MichaelApproved wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Edit: Damn. I think OP was being sarcastic. A quick look through the comment history shows a different view than the one expressed in the comment. I removed the downvote. ---Original comment--- Here's why I downvoted you: - It doesn't matter if the water is clean or dirty because that's not what's causing climate change. - The United States was the second largest emitter of carbon dioxide in 2015. CO2 is a leading ca…

The term "bigly"... ...might also be a marker of sarcasm here.

Thanks! I think you're right. I edited my comment.

Re: Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought and Climate Change

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Post by MiguelVieira »

Did they plant native tree species? Did they plant them in places that should naturally be forested? Most of Ethiopia's naturally occurring landscapes are deserts, savannas, and shrublands.

I worry they're destroying native landscapes by replacing them with non-native tree plantations.

Re: Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought and Climate Change

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Post by bencollier49 »

Smrchy wrote: post #107
_bxg1 wrote: post #99

But tell me again how the world's largest economy can't be bothered to do anything about climate change.

The US already has the cleanest of water and air. No need to do anything when you are leading the others bigly.

Oh man, that just shot over a few heads..

Re: Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought and Climate Change

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Post by zapita »

merpnderp wrote: post #97
zapita wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're going to have to elaborate, I didn't understand your point at all. I look forward to watching you attempt to demonstrate that appropriation of native land, and free labor from slavery, aren't the pillars on which most wealth in the US was built. I'm sure it will be entertaining.

The shortest and simplest argument is that the South barely had the funds to prosecute the war while the North not only could fully fund their war efforts, they had access to extensive lines of credit from other nations. The South had to rely upon the largesse of European countries using it as a pawn. The North lost roughly one soldier for every African slave brought to the South and the least we could do is not impl…

> The shortest and simplest argument is that the South barely had the funds to prosecute the war while the North not only could fully fund their war efforts, they had access to extensive lines of credit from other nations. The South had to rely upon the largesse of European countries using it as a pawn.

Interesting argument. And what was the wealth of the North built on?

Re: Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought and Climate Change

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Post by mimimihaha »

antupis wrote: post #58
cf141q5325 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It does seem quite a bit, furiouspete talked about jobbing as a student in reforestation in Canada (his shrooms video) and apparently if you are quick you go through 4k a day per person a 12h shift. https://youtu.be/tzHw86XmNgc?t=440

Finland we specialized tool which you can get easily 200 trees planted in an hour. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLtspCQPeqY

Even 200 seeds per hour would require ~145,000 participants to plant all 350M seeds in a 12 hr time frame. I’m literally just imagining a few guys with a leaf blower and a bag of seeds for how they got 350M in 12 hours haha.

Re: Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought and Climate Change

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Post by distances »

kevin_b_er wrote: post #110
Smrchy wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The US already has the cleanest of water and air. No need to do anything when you are leading the others bigly.

Right now it does. Major financial/political interests are seeking to gut the laws that got us the cleanest water and air in order to make more money for themselves.

Just in case you weren't sarcastic: the parent was, and US is obviously nowhere near the top of the list in regards of clean air and water.

Re: Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought and Climate Change

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Post by jbattle »

Ethiopia is a gorgeous country. I highly recommend it as a place to visit. I've been a handful of times and there's so much to see. The people are awesome, the food can't be beat, and coffee is everywhere. Its a multi-cultural country so as you travel around the diversity in how people live and dress is striking.

Regarding the trees - it is the rainy season in Ethiopia, should last another few months. The country is huge and while parts of it are very very dry, other parts are borderline jungle. There are some cloud rain forests, not sure if they have "proper" rain forests. Ethiopia actually as a country has a lot of water (though it does need to be carefully managed)

The government invests heavily in the country (as does China). In the span of a few years I saw huge changes in the infrastructure.

Re: Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought and Climate Change

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Post by icebraining »

supernova87a wrote: post #127

Did anyone else find the 350M number implausible? They claim it happened in 12 hours. Unless they're talking about planting seeds, I find it hard to believe and take this story just as a political stunt. Ethiopia's population is 100M. Did 10% participate in this somehow, and each person plant 35 trees across the country? How would you even get that many trees to plant?

Apparently they're seedlings, not just seeds. Seems to be a large campaign; one company alone was boasting about having planted 1M. But I have no idea if it's verified in any way.

Re: Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought and Climate Change

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Post by simonsarris »

thinkpad20 wrote: post #100
whb07 wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You realize that the European powers of 17th and 18th centuries "exploited" the Americas to include the U.S and yet here stands the U.S head and shoulders above these "exploiters".

America’s success was the direct result of ethnic cleansing of millions of Native Americans and the backbreaking labor of millions of slaves. The comparison is ridiculous. We were the exploiters.

No it wasn't. It doesn't even pass the sniff test.

Why do you think the slave-free north was much richer than the south, before the civil war?

If slavery makes a country rich, why isn't Africa rich?

Why wasn't Brazil, which imported ~4 million slaves (compare to ~200k for USA) significantly richer than the USA?

Native Americans had slaves:

> "An exhaustive search of some 725 late 18th/early 19th century ethnohistoric sources and 20th century ethnographic works indicates that predatory warfare, or preying on other groups for plunder and captives, was engaged in by virtually all Northwest Coast societies."

> "Source after source notes, either through specific instances or in general terms, and with almost monotonous iteration, that within this large area a prime motive for raiding was to gain captives for enslavement."

(From: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3773392?seq=1#page_scan_tab_con...)

Why weren't those people rich?

If you think slavery was instrumental to any rich nation getting rich, I suggest you read a lot more history, and look at who had the most slaves in history, and who has the most slaves today.

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