I wonder if a tree in America doesn't do as much good as one in the Amazon.
Or, one in Europe. Much of the outcry against Brazil is coming out of Europe. I wonder what is being done there to save the trees, and read of a privately-funded reforestation program in France called Reforest'Action.
I read how the U.S. ranks fourth in the world in deforestation, with it losing 29.2 million hectares between 2001 and 2014.
Shouldn't we have a program of reforestation? That is the least. Even if you are saying we need to continue to clear trees out to make way for development, why not find new places to plant trees?
Global warming is real. We have been in this wondering game long enough that we should be coming to our senses that the planet is indeed and surely warming. There is a crisis, and it is man-made. And, we know trees and plants eat up carbon dioxide. We must wonder, then, with all this concern of global warming, why no reforestation plans in the United States?
Actually, there is an effort. Led by the U.S. Forest Service and the Arbor Day Foundation, 7.7 million hectares of forestation were added. between 1990 and 2010. That is not enough. If 30 million hectares are lost, and only 8 million replaced, we are losing.
Would it be asking too much that every new home development include trees? Do some cities already have ordinances requiring that? I do not know.
Has ever a bill been introduced in Congress, calling for reforestation? How many such bills, if any, have there been in the 50 states?
Has the government ever taken an inventory of our forests to draw a line as to which are off-limits to being cut down? Do we have a plan that looks at what we've got, and which forests will not be touched? Why not?
Failing to plan is planning to fail, it is said. How are we doing? And, why-oh-why are we not doing more?
(Index -- Climate change info)
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