Tree planting 'has mind-blowing potential' to tackle climate crisis
Why has it been relatively warm this year, and many previous years already too? Across much of the Northern Hemisphere this year, winter was a shadow of its former self — and climate change is partly to blame.
Why has it been relatively warm this year, and many previous years already too? Across much of the Northern Hemisphere this year, winter was a shadow of its former self — and climate change is partly to blame. This winter weirdness was in part driven by normal variations in global weather patterns. But climate change, which tilts the planetary scales in favor of high-temperature extremes, exacerbated the variation and makes future warm winters more likely.
This is alarming, don’t you think?
We individuals surely can do something too. Decrease your general consumption of any product, eat less meat (better: no meat at all), don’t use single-use plastic, take your bike or public transport, use the train instead of plane if possible and .. help planting trees.
Why?
Research shows a trillion trees could be planted to capture huge amount of carbon dioxide. Planting billions of trees across the world is one of the biggest and cheapest ways of taking CO2 out of the atmosphere to tackle the climate crisis. As trees grow, they absorb and store the carbon dioxide emissions that are driving global heating. New research estimates that a worldwide planting program could remove two-thirds of all the emissions from human activities that remain in the atmosphere today.
“This new quantitative evaluation shows [forest] restoration isn’t just one of our climate change solutions, it is overwhelmingly the top one,” said Prof Tom Crowther at the Swiss university ETH Zürich, who led the research. “What blows my mind is the scale. I thought restoration would be in the top 10, but it is overwhelmingly more powerful than all of the other climate change solutions proposed.”
How?
If climate change also worries you just like us, check out one of our other promotions 'One Tray sold One Tree Planted'. Order one tray of Nightwatch and plant one tree. Nightwatch revolves around a tree; the Ilex Guayusa tree has been very good for us humans. We're sure we don't need to elaborate on the need for planting trees or the necessity of creating a sustainable environment.
