cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/998526
Shamelessly stolen from u/OccamsLoppers on Reddit.
A few trees really don’t do much. My half acre lot is a biodiverse garden covered in 3 pollinator gardens and a half dozen tree varieties but it’s delusional to think that’s helping with global warming. The sad reality is the big corporations are the ones doing the bulk of the damage and aren’t going to stop unless we make them. They also aren’t doing shit to reforest the planet.
I don’t think we are talking about global warming, tree are very good at local climate control. The shade plus evaporation from the leaves can lower the temperature by several degrees.
In this study they observed that cities area with trees can be up to 12°C cooler than area without trees. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2298675-trees-cool-the-land-surface-temperature-of-cities-by-up-to-12c/
You are wrong. Every tree planted makes a difference, so your garden does, and mine, and the gardens of people reading this thread. Let’s just do both, plant more trees and stop big corporations from doing more damage.
Really, even the tiniest thing helps. Even a pot of parsley on the windowsill. Please do not give up and seed something.
I would love to plant trees, but I have a very small lot and it’s already got just about as many trees as I can put on it (because of an easement I can’t put any in back where I’d like to). I have 6 pine by my garage, a huge oak in front, and some piece of shit tree with small leaves that I hate but does a great job shading my house in summer - it’s about tripled in size in the 10 years I’ve been here.
But I do collect acorns from my massive old oak tree (probs about 100 yrs old - the house is 140) and give buckets of them to whomever wants to spread them on their land.
Teamwork makes the dream work, and I’m actually going to get a full drop of acorns this year (haven’t had one in 3-4 years)
That’s great! I’m experimenting with growing acorns into seedlings to give away. Acorns can sometimes have poor germination or get eaten if you scatter them about. Then again it’s a lot easier so if even a few grow this can be a good approach.
Yeah this is mostly for people with large acerage. I live in a semi-rural town and there’s a lot of money to be had in tax write offs spreading trees on their own disused farmland. They don’t care if they all grow, they want the least amount of work possible, and every tree that comes up in a given year is an additional sum of money (I don’t really understand the program, but it seems to be very fine grain, down to individual trees or like a per m2 density or something, and the type of tree matters, oaks are worth more than birch for example). I could probably charge for them if I really wanted to, even without being sprouted, but I’d rather they just grow.
So far (10 years) I’ve given away about 20 5 gallon buckets worth, acorns only (no sticks, leaves, rocks, or loose caps), about half of that to people I know who spread them before the leaves fell. Good for nature and wildlife :)
I wish more cities would break open the pavement and plant more trees. It is notably cooler under the tree in my yard than under a parasol.
Even in my neighborhood there’s tons of front yard/driveways which are fully cemented. If people would only break it open and plant something. :(
All this concrete just absorbs all the heat and keeps radiating it when it finally cools down. A bit of green in cities would do wonders ( and not just a green patch in a sea of concrete )…
Definitely! San Francisco has a program where they cut into concrete to create more space. Wish more cities were willing to be that radical.
Personally I have far higher ambitions than that… but it’s certainly a start!
I’ve seen the calculation somewhere, you’d need to plant more tress than there is surface space on earth.
Meanwhile, at Universal Studios.
