Four women and two men walked in a line to the edge of a village name Engenho. The group wore hats to protect against the sun and long gloves against venomous snakes. They carried a plastic tub that contained an entire forest, ready to be planted.
The crew walked until they found a field that wasn’t populated much yet. The team dropped their items onto the damp earth and set to work. One of them would use a simple plow to dig a shallow hole in the ground. Another person would tuck a tree about the length of a small pencil with a few roots and leaves. Each tree was planted a reasonable distance from each other because when the trees grow taller, the more space the roots need. This process of planting one tree took less than a minute. The team said they had produced about 30,000 trees over the three weeks.
Zack St. George of the New York Times explained, “The growing demand for tree-planting is reflected in the ranks of tree-planting organizations. In a study published last year in the Biological Conservation journal, a group of researchers led by Meredith Martin, a North Carolina State University Forest ecologist, found that the number of tree-planting groups working in the tropics has increased by nearly 300 percent since the early 1990s, to more than 170.”
Such studies support the belief that more people are acknowledging that governments and civilians need to plant additional trees to help the earth combat climate change. “Most of that increase came in the last decade, and the number of trees those organizations have reported planting has increased by nearly 5,000 percent. However, further information about these trees, including how many still exist, is generally scant.”
Some tree-planting organizations are non-profit organizations. For example, California-based Eden Restoration Projects plants trees themselves. However, some organizations have roles like obtaining the tree saplings and distributing them among participants in charge of planting. Other organizations, such as One Tree Planted,
#TeamTrees
, Trees4Trees, and One Dollar One Tree, promise to plant a tree for each dollar donated.
Environmentalists argue that stopping pollution should be civilians’ primary goal and that tree planting is one of the most powerful solutions to climate change. Not only does planting trees stop pollution, but it can also stop prevent warming and other severe climate changes.
Scientists argue that pollution is serious but will take all civilians working together to stop it.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/13/magazine/planting-trees-climate-change.html
The crew walked until they found a field that wasn’t populated much yet. The team dropped their items onto the damp earth and set to work. One of them would use a simple plow to dig a shallow hole in the ground. Another person would tuck a tree about the length of a small pencil with a few roots and leaves. Each tree was planted a reasonable distance from each other because when the trees grow taller, the more space the roots need. This process of planting one tree took less than a minute. The team said they had produced about 30,000 trees over the three weeks.
Zack St. George of the New York Times explained, “The growing demand for tree-planting is reflected in the ranks of tree-planting organizations. In a study published last year in the Biological Conservation journal, a group of researchers led by Meredith Martin, a North Carolina State University Forest ecologist, found that the number of tree-planting groups working in the tropics has increased by nearly 300 percent since the early 1990s, to more than 170.”
Such studies support the belief that more people are acknowledging that governments and civilians need to plant additional trees to help the earth combat climate change. “Most of that increase came in the last decade, and the number of trees those organizations have reported planting has increased by nearly 5,000 percent. However, further information about these trees, including how many still exist, is generally scant.”
Some tree-planting organizations are non-profit organizations. For example, California-based Eden Restoration Projects plants trees themselves. However, some organizations have roles like obtaining the tree saplings and distributing them among participants in charge of planting. Other organizations, such as One Tree Planted,
#TeamTrees
, Trees4Trees, and One Dollar One Tree, promise to plant a tree for each dollar donated.
Environmentalists argue that stopping pollution should be civilians’ primary goal and that tree planting is one of the most powerful solutions to climate change. Not only does planting trees stop pollution, but it can also stop prevent warming and other severe climate changes.
Scientists argue that pollution is serious but will take all civilians working together to stop it.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/13/magazine/planting-trees-climate-change.html