Just some notes.. Planting trees isn’t as easy as I thought. I plant maybe 10 a year and most of them die coz I forgot to water in the Spanish summer heat. But with every climate report more catastrophic and convincing (see below) it seems a basic idea to find out how to plant 1000 trees before I die, at least for the kids sake.
Of course trees just store CO2, and if someone burns or bulldozes my trees I’ve wasted my time. And the science of forest carbon sinks is a welter of contradictions. But all agree that the bigger the forest , the more carbon it stores, especially when growing.
Many researchers claim that reforesting the billions of hectares of degraded, abandoned or arid land could stop Climate Chaos for a generation. Okay, dismantling capitalism is the real answer, but time is running out. (It’s not a betrayal, just as a revolutionary Union accepts a wage rise!) So let’s just make the forests bigger! Indeed the rise in CO2 and nitrogen will help them grow!
First problem is where to plant. Okay, we can put a few trees in gardens and vacant lots, the more the better, and they say don’t forget native plants and bushes that are just as important. But to plant a lot of trees, even living in the country, confronts us with capitalist property rights, and even if you can find the last plot of common land it’s pretty sure someone will grab it or let loose their fucking goats.
One answer is to organize, and meanwhile get those first seedlings going in pots. There’s lots of institutions looking for volunteer tree planters.. most of them pretty capitalist IMHO. Look out for Greenwashers and polluters angling for carbon credit cash!
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