{"id":6365,"date":"2021-10-17T17:05:53","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T17:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6365"},"modified":"2021-10-17T17:05:53","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T17:05:53","slug":"the-surprising-downsides-to-planting-trillions-of-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6365","title":{"rendered":"The surprising downsides to planting trillions of trees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Solving a problem as vast as climate change or biodiversity loss is never as straightforwardas planting lots of trees. People often think, \u201cWe\u2019ll just plant trees and call that a restoration project, and we\u2019ll exonerate our carbon sins,\u201d said Robin Chazdon, a forest researcher at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Usually, she said, \u201cthat fails.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buzzy tree-planting programs tend to obscure the fact that restoration requires a long-term commitment of resources and many years of monitoring. \u201cWe should just stop thinking about only tree-planting,\u201d as climate scientist Lalisa Duguma has said<\/a>. \u201cIt has to be tree-growing.\u201d Even fast-growing trees take at least three years to mature, he added, while others can require eight years or more. \u201cIf our thinking of growing trees is downgraded to planting trees, we miss that big part of the investment that is required,\u201d Duguma said.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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” A bigger problem still is that many large planting campaigns don\u2019t account for the underlying social or economic conditions that fuel deforestation in the first place. People may cut down trees to collect firewood or carve out land for their animals. In those cases, putting seedlings in the ground won\u2019t do much to end deforestation. \u201cPlanting trees might not be the intervention,\u201d Fleischman said. \u201cThe intervention might be giving people a substitute for firewood.\u201d”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“there are plenty of successful restoration programs \u2014 and they\u2019re getting better, said Chazdon, who\u2019s also an adviser for the WEF trillion trees campaign. \u201cThere is ample evidence that when restoration is done properly, it works,\u201d she said.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/down-to-earth\/22679378\/tree-planting-forest-restoration-climate-solutions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Solving a problem as vast as climate change or biodiversity loss is never as straightforward as planting lots of trees. People often think, \u201cWe\u2019ll just plant trees and call that a restoration project, and we\u2019ll exonerate our carbon sins,\u201d said Robin Chazdon, a forest researcher at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Usually, she said, \u201cthat fails.\u201d<\/p>\n

Buzzy tree-planting programs tend to obscure the fact that restoration requires a long-term commitment of resources and many years of monitoring. \u201cWe should just stop thinking about only tree-planting,\u201d as climate scientist Lalisa Duguma has said. \u201cIt has to be tree-growing.\u201d Even fast-growing trees take at least three years to mature, he added, while others can require eight years or more. \u201cIf our thinking of growing trees is downgraded to planting trees, we miss that big part of the investment that is required,\u201d Duguma said.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

” A bigger problem still is that many large planting campaigns don\u2019t account for the underlying social or economic conditions that fuel deforestation in the first place. People may cut down trees to collect firewood or carve out land for their animals. In those cases, putting seedlings in the ground won\u2019t do much to end deforestation. \u201cPlanting trees might not be the intervention,\u201d Fleischman said. \u201cThe intervention might be giving people a substitute for firewood.\u201d”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“there are plenty of successful restoration programs \u2014 and they\u2019re getting better, said Chazdon, who\u2019s also an adviser for the WEF trillion trees campaign. \u201cThere is ample evidence that when restoration is done properly, it works,\u201d she said.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[105,103,104,102],"class_list":["post-6365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-global-warming","tag-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6366,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6365\/revisions\/6366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}