:biden-harbinger: you all claim I have done nothing, here are one billion things :DaBiden:
Repairing Existing Public Land by Adding Necessary Trees Act, better known as the REPLANT Act
this backronym shit is insulting in a way that I can't articulate properly
It's very patronizing to think that people can only understand policy if the thing the policy does is the name of the policy
PATRIOT Act shit is a big reason it's hard to do any actual discourse on policy
it's cool that we can't fight climate change and can only mitigate the consequences
China’s efforts to expand forest cover have increased the planet’s total tree canopy by an estimated 25 per cent, according to researchers
:deng-smile:
fuck yes. I love that China gets shit done and then moves onto the next project.
:bloomer:
imagine living in a country that meaningfully, visibly strives to improve itself with large social projects
:sicko-wistful:
Holy shit :bloomer:
the impact so far is small and greater investment is needed
Damn right :lets-fucking-go:
Yeah, no I can see why they've decided we should all just die instead of addressing this then. Cool
26 billion trees per decade vs 1 billion. :amerikkka:
I’m not sure about building new ones, but they are still increasing the use of coal. But they also claim that most industries will be transitioned to green energy in like 30 years which seems like a long time but it’s a pretty big country
Compare that to the west where politicians are cumming over the thought of using coal and have 0 concrete plans of transitioning, even if it’s just symbolic
That douche only planted like 5% of America's annual deforestation metric and called it a day. So just imagine that level of self aggrandizement on a national scale.
I am for real curious how they'll fuck this one up. The goal is so small and realistic and within their means in every way that when they fuck this up - because no way does this end with the US actually planting a billion trees - it will probably be spectacular. My money is on them partnering with a logging company for this project and cutting down a forest to make room for the trees they're going to plant.
Also they don't tend to them afterwards and don't put them in actually important areas. Expanding wetlands, connecting different forests to greatly increase habitat range, ect. Planting trees in plains type areas with limited rainfall and water hardly sinks any carbon.
They also don't do the one thing that's needed, which is to reclaim land from private owners to give the forests room to grow. Planting trees is not the important part, they plant themselves when they have room. Planting trees is a product of needing to cram increasing amounts of trees into limited space. "Repairing Existing Public Land" is just a holding action if you aren't also appropriating new public land. Just like building more renewable energy doesn't mean shit if you aren't aggressively shutting down fossil fuel plants.
I think comrade QuillcrestFalconer has the right idea and they'll plant them all in the next area to get cleaned out by a wildfire
"Stalin also actively promoted forest environmentalism for the benefit of the state, establishing levels of protection unparalleled to anywhere in the world... Stalin's environmentalism policies codified into law an assumption that healthy land was forested and that deforestation represented serious environmental dangers to the state's larger project of modernization"
I see where your inspiration lies Mr Biden :stalin-approval:
Yeah exactly.
It sounds like they're just replanting trees for the logging industry. Ofc they won't be in any way protected so they'll get logged again in like 20 to 30 years
The real reason mattyg wants there to be 1 billion Americans... so they each can plant exactly 1 tree!!!
This is cool but god damn we are doing so little to combat climate change it's truly incredible.
Isn't UPI owned by the moonies or some other reactionary cult now?
Just looked it up and can confirm it is owned by the Moonies, lol.
I’ll have to look out for moonies apologia, but 90% of the stories are Florida man finds aligator in his trashcan
