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So let’s assume that governments will need to pay at least $500 per hectare to stop them from felling their trees.
This takes into account the fact that many forest owners have no intention of cutting down trees, so won’t require compensation.
Agriculture there has been damaged by the cutting of walnut, apricot, and mulberry trees for winter fuel, and by a failure to replant poplar, willow, and tamarisk – the trees that hold fragile meadows in place.
These sorts of trees can be restored, given a concerted campaign and investment in nurseries to produce local varieties.
The inadequate response to pressing questions of natural resource management, whether of water or trees, merely strengthens the hands of opium dealers and malcontents in what is already the most disaffected and sensitive part of Afghanistan – the clear-cut mountain slopes where intelligence officers believe Osama bin Laden is most likely holed up.
Churches will ring bells 350 times, 350 cyclists will circle towns, and, in many places, 350 trees will be planted.
But tech CEOs have not tweeted about restoring that resource, because, at the moment, they see no viable business model for saving trees.
To take advantage of this crucial hedge against a warming planet, more trees must remain standing.
Bangkok, which has been tackling air pollution since the 1990s, has planted 400,000 trees.
During this process, with its seemingly endless and convoluted floor debates, observers should not lose sight of the forest for the trees.
Similarly, a virus that infects gypsy moth larvae prompts them to climb en masse to the tops of trees to die.
For example, simply changing the color of roofs in warm climates to reflect sunlight or planting trees around houses can lead to great savings on energy used for air conditioning.
The Ungreening of the WorldEveryone I meet claims to love trees -- I mean really love trees -- yet collectively the human race behaves as if it abhors green things.
If you take a step back from whatever biome you are in at the moment and look at the entire Earth and its forests through recorded history, you will see that the relationship between humans and trees looks Strangely Like War (the title of a recent book on forests by Derrick Jensen and George Draffan).
If this happens when we claim to love trees, I shudder to think what would happen if we were ambivalent about them?
Trees were also cut to clear cropland, provide heat, and the fledgling nation was using up its forests to build its own ironworks and railroads as well.
A real estate housing project developer wanted to cut many acres of trees so he could build houses.
Why do humans all claim to love trees, but their actions deny their claim?
When a would-be exploiter of trees stands before a politician and requests, or demands, the right to clear a forest, the politician, out of fear, complies.
But we do not fear trees.
Trees stand mute despite our betrayal.
All take somewhat different approaches and offer different recommendations, making it hard for policymakers to see the forest through the trees.
Cocoa trees thrive in just a thin band of countries along the equator, where the climate is warm and humid.
West African cocoa is an important part of Hershey’s unique flavor, but in that region, cocoa trees are aging and becoming less productive.
The only sustainable solution is to seed old cocoa farms with new trees.
But once cocoa trees stop producing after 30 years or so – or sooner if disease strikes – farmers must obtain permission from the original landowner to replant.
Shade trees, maize, and plantains are also being planted to help diversify incomes and increase productivity.
Similarly, kites get tangled in trees, and if you climb the tree to free it, you might look over your neighbor's wall and see a woman without her veil, which would put you in sin.
In Greece, where tax hikes on oil have driven up heating costs by 48%, more and more Athenians are cutting down park trees, causing air pollution from wood burning to triple.
In her essay “Notes Toward a Dreampolitik,” Didion describes people who move about the world “forever felling trees in some interior wilderness.”
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