There is no dispute amongst scienctists that more trees are better than fewer trees.

Tree planting is bad when…

However, tree planting is bad under certain conditions:

  • When trees are planted for “rapid timber production or carbon capture”, including monoculture tree plantations
  • When we plant trees just to replace existing ecosystems, such as peatlands.
  • When it is not done in collaboration with the local people
  • When it is assumed that it is the most effective and sole solution to climate change

Let’s plant the right tree in the right place.

Richard Lindsay

Use Ecosia instead of Google

  • Ecosia uses Microsoft’s Bing under the hood, so you will notice results are “not very Google” and might deem it not very “effective”. But it is a tradeoff I’m willing to make.

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