“If you want to be rich, have fewer children and grow more trees” is the mantra of my high school chemistry teacher.
In her opinion, sustainable development (get rich) must be a two-pronged approach. While reducing our existing carbon emissions, reducing environmental pollution, and reducing resource consumption (fewer children), we must “return farmland to forests” and respond to global warming through sustainable development of forests (multiple trees) ).
Sustainable development is actually protecting the environment while developing. Reducing pollution and increasing forest coverage are all good ways to protect the planet. But if only one tree is planted, how many trees can protect the earth?
To save the planet, they decided to plant 1 trillion trees
In January of this year, Davos in the Grisons region of southeast Switzerland brought together more than 3,000 political and business representatives from more than 100 countries. The issues they are discussing are how to save the planet, how to deal with climate change, and how to “gather global power to achieve sustainable development.”
Finally, the Davos Forum announced A new initiative , which proposes that businesses and governments around the world
Marc Benioff, CEO of software service provider Salesforce, has announced that he will donate to the project, and his company has promised to plant 100 million trees. US President Trump also said that the United States will join the event called 1t.org.
And there isn’t a stand for this activity, but there are also many entrepreneurs and companies that have started planting trees.
Jack Ma has just retired, and the domestic ant forest project has been vigorously launched; Plants three times the amount of trees that were cut down for the factory. Its founder, Musk, also created a YouTube charity tree planting project #TeamTrees donated 1 million; Apple-invested projects It can protect and restore 1.64 million acres of mangroves in Colombia. This project can reduce carbon dioxide in the air by about 1 million tons.
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Before this “1t.org” trillion tree project, human tree planting has actually been continued for many years . It took us decades to go from one tree to tens of millions of trees, and from one billion to one trillion trees.
1977In 2000, the “Green Belt Movement” began planting trees in Africa. As of today, more than 30 million trees have been planted under this program.
In 2006, in response to the challenge of global warming, the United Nations Environment Programme set a “small target” for planting one billion trees.
By 2008, the campaign plans to plant 7 billion trees.
To this day, we have finally started a trillion project and want to plant a trillion trees on earth.
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