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I don't have a good feeling about this. "Planting trees" is almost a red flag for me at this point since very few people seem to understand how complex and the real investment needed to plant a tree.
You can't just spam saplings and expect a forest. A forest is a living complex system easier to preserve than it is to build.
"planting trees?" Really? What kind? Are they native species? Who will care for them in the critical first years? Who owns the land?
Tree planting schemes have been used as green-washing more often than they have been sincere or effective means to care for the earth. Some "tree planting" operations are just logging companies who sell the rights of their monoculture fields to companies who want to claim they planted trees. The trees are harvested years later.
In NYC we planted millions of trees. But they just sent saplings and let amateurs spam them wherever. Years later they have all died.
This is why I'm deeply suspicious of anyone who claims to be "planting X trees when you do Y"
These are just indulgences of our modern time.
@futurebird @mistergibson@mastodon.social @wa7iut @wmd Next you’ll tell me carbon offsets are a scam.
@aral @futurebird @mistergibson @wa7iut @wmd
I'm sure you're joking but i thought i would demonstrate the grift here anyway.
Let's say i own land with trees on it. Let's say that land is not doing anything when I get a call from someone trying to get carbon credits. They need my trees to be threatened with destruction so they can save them and claim credits. This will be valuable to them so they will pay me for my efforts. All i have to do is claim i want to do something with the land but this money stops me.
Nothing has changed except that I'm getting paid to keep trees that were never threatened, and the company is publicly taking credit for saving the planet.
@RnDanger @futurebird @mistergibson@mastodon.social @wa7iut @wmd Yep, it was pure organic sarcasm.