Trump just said the US will join the initiative at Davos.
Trump is chronically full of shit, so there's that, but here's hoping.
Good people are everywhere. Give them the opportunity to step up to the plate, they'll gladly swing for the fences."Looking back over the Billion Tree Campaign’s greatest successes, what is most remarkable is not its scale, but its spread. People from all around the world have enthusiastically joined the campaign and planted trees in their own communities." – Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director.
You should promote your own quality content more: heh, I do that on accident wayyyy too frequently myself. But at least this is something. Trump seems to equate climate change with clean air and water, but luckily there may be some basic primate instinct we all have that says "more trees better than less trees". I can't imagine trying to explain CO2 and the Greenhouse effect to that man, so a little bit of probably accidental carbon sequestration is about all we can hope for during this administration.C02
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Okay that's actually a useful visualization. There are about 8 billion people on the earth. That's 125 trees for every man, woman and child. "Tree" is a highly variable concept but let's take eucalyptus because it'll grow anywhere, including Australia. You can get a thousand gum trees per acre so every man, woman and child needs to plant about an eighth of an acre of trees where there are no trees any longer. My house, coincidentally, has 3/8ths of an acre. There's already four trees on it (twelve if we're generous enough to count bushes as trees) and a house so I'm going to need to find somewhere else to put about 300 trees, even presuming I convert all of my property to forest (which I think is actually against code - power lines and the like after all). Americans use around 50 rolls of toilet paper per capita per year. That's about a quarter a tree.In December 2017, following the discovery that there are more than three trillion trees on Earth, the planting target was revised to a trillion trees and the Billion Tree Campaign became the Trillion Tree Campaign.[8][9] It was found that this amount of trees would cancel out the last 10 years of CO2 emissions and sequester 160 billion tons of carbon.
Fuck me Population of the United States: 327 million Acreage given over to cows: 654 million Acres needed if every man, woman, and child in the United States needs an eighth of an acre of trees for carbon offset: 40.8 million Percentage of rangeland in order to offset American carbon: 6.2% let's go plant some trees!
America is trailing hard, both in number of total trees and actual v planned tree ratio. We should totally step up our game. Also, Romania, Estonia, and Tunisia learn hard into the maxim of "Under promise, over deliver."