Environment - Why not plant some TREES?

Question

I have heard every idea under the sun about the environment -but what I am not hearing are ideas about reforesting the earth. Most of the areas where it doesn't rain have NO TREES - well, we send food to Africa and places where it doesn't rain - I bet if we sent trees and watered the trees in addition to the food we are sending in several generations there would be plenty of rainfall there enough to water their crops and everything. Look at arizona - a place that was desolate and where it never rained -now it rains there. After years of irrigation and watering crops and planting trees. It makes a difference. We have had generations where they chopped down the trees and now we have global warming - but in all these talks about global warming nobody talks about reforesting the planet. - it's the one thing we can all do.

What do you think?

well you bring in water. We bring food into to those places now - If you look at it as something that can be done for a few years in order for it to eventually rain there, then people will do it. Do it in one area at a time, then when one area starts getting water, then go to the next area.

Remember Arizona had no rain - it was desert - people brought water in.

IT does take money - but it takes more THINKING than money - people dont' think to plant trees. They spend all this money talking about all this stuff - and there's a simple solution - plant trees and water them. They just dont' think - they don't know to do this. Honest. I bet if each of us wrote our lawmakers then maybe they might start talking about it. Even Al Gore isn't talking about trees, he's talking about how we can all cut back and all that. He's not even talking about trees. IT's insane.
I can't understand that though.

like I said - you start small - you work your way up. But you start with a plan.
That's what's lacking now.

Answer 1

But how do you water trees in places that don't rain? You realize that most people in those areas don't have potable water to begin with? And you want to bring water into an area, not because the people need it, but because the trees do?

Answer 2

No, and unless you live in an area that historically had trees and has plenty of water, you shouldn't either. Trees for the sake of trees only helps your conscience, not the environment. Where I live there are no native trees and it only rains 6-10 inches each year, which is all taken up by shrubs and grasses. Planting trees here would actually harm the environment. Also, trees or other dark colored plants can increase global warming if they're planted in the wrong places.

Answer 3

Brilliant and super idea. Unfortunately, those people with power and money are not thinking the way you think; because they are evil and profit makers.

Look World Bank & IMF for example: when they borrow money for the poor countries with interest, they don't borrow them to plant trres or grow wheat and corn, they only tell them how to grow row materials according the demand of western industarliasts. That is to say, if star buck need more coffee for American Consumers, the Ethiopian coffee farmers may get a laon from world bank with high interest to grow more coffee. They can't use the money to grow trees or wheat. Then, star bucks will buy them cheaply. Then after they process it here in America or Europe, they will sell them back with triple profit.

You see now, how many times they get profit. They get high interest from their bank interest, they bough the raw material very cheaply and sell back to the poor with high price. That is without including the cheap labour. That is why they are always poor. They will never be rich or have money to buy or grow trees. It is more than that..but for now it is enough..

Answer 4

I think that, unfortunately, we have realized the cause of the problem very late. Not too late, just very late.
There is no simple and easy solution in the short term.
Chinese and indian governments planted millions of trees last years. Droughts in China and retreat of ice in the Himalaya dont allow them grow.
Drought, and therefore desert, grows everywhere, worldwide. 1/3 of USA is a desert, more than 50% in Europe, almost 100% of Australia, etc...
Not easy to water trees if we, humans, dont have fresh water enough for ourselves.
Saving fresh water must be one of the first steps.
To save water and to save any posible resource.
To save is the key word to Save our selves

Answer 5

I think its a great idea. Especially in urban areas that need it the most. Cities and towns should identify dilapidated and/or abandoned properties and purchase the deed to these properties with the goal of restoring them to public "green" spaces. Either as urban vegetable gardens or treed parks.

I know it isn't cheap, and management of these restored properties wouldn't be free either. There is always the problem of gang and drug activity or vagrancy to deal with. But I think, with a concerted community effort, these types of problems can be resolved and everyone in the community benefits.

I think its time we begin to take back control of the "concrete jungle".

Answer 6

Well you would have to build some kind of water pipeline.

I know there are more trees in the USA now than there was 50 years ago due to replanting. Alot of dead wood though now and there are alot more forest fires in recent years.

Answer 7

Its just like LMiserab said there's to much greed but its a great idea water isn't the problem you can always drill for water and use solar or wind to pump it out . I hate to say but we really need to bring the rich down a few notches in order for us to survive .Doing that may even bring the gold digging woman down a few notches to that would kill two birds with one stone .

Answer 8

This is probably the single largest impact we could have on global warming (short of all riding mopeds instead of passenger vehicles)

Answer 9

save trees by planting them!!!! IdealBite.com