The Biden administration has unveiled plans to plant more than 1 billion trees over millions of acres of national forests in an effort to address a reforestation backlog and to fight climate change.
:biden-harbinger: you all claim I have done nothing, here are one billion things :DaBiden:
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 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.
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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.
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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.
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They'll mint a promotional nft for every tree planted
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
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