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\"DSC_2310\"<\/a>Is planting trees a good idea?\u00a0 Recently its been announced that to counter Donald Trumps decision to pull the US out of the Paris climate change treaty.\u00a0 A group of people in New Zealand has started an on-line pledge page for donations to plant 10 billion trees worldwide<\/a>.\u00a0 This is an area the size of Kentucky.<\/p>\n

This is to balance the total emissions that Trumps policies will put in the atmosphere by 2025.\u00a0 650 million tonnes.\u00a0 Planting trees is always a good idea.\u00a0 As this blog has noted particularly in urban areas they have positive environmental, health and wellbeing effects.\u00a0 Sticking it to Trump on almost anything at the moment has my support.\u00a0 There is also a websearch engine Ecosia<\/a> which uses the revenue from your searches to do the same thing.\u00a0 It gives an implausible counter on how many have been planted so far.\u00a0 The number is not, its the rate this number goes up that seems a bit rapid to me.\u00a0 That being said I use it as my homepage and default search engine.<\/p>\n

However my concerns are not with the idea but the long term implementation of the idea.\u00a0 These trees need looking after.\u00a0 Forests need management.\u00a0 Walking with a group of people on Skye we came across the remains of trees that had been planted as a carbon offset by a well known rock band.\u00a0 They had almost all died, largely defeating the purpose (some carbon was tied up in their remains).<\/p>\n

The advantage is that trees can be planted very quickly (if not perhaps as fast as\u00a0Ecosia claim) and when young absorb carbon very fast.\u00a0 We need to stop deforestation worldwide so anything that can help in this regard is great.\u00a0 But we should not rely on this without guaranteed protection and management.\u00a0 Better still is not to put the carbon into the atmosphere in the first place…<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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