greenstorm | Always bothered me (Reply)

For some reason folks don't seem to associate planting trees with land tenure. Have some sense, folks: if you want to be buried with a tree growing on you, want ten trees to be planted for every sweatshirt you buy, want your government to plant trees to stop global warming, those trees must all be planted on land that is then dedicated to them for (I imagine you would like) a length of time. Five years? Ten years? Two hundred years? That land was doing something before the trees were planted, what was it? Are they draining wetlands or displacing crops for this? Would trees have been planted there anyhow by someone else? (forestry companies in Canada are legally obligated to replant so anything that promises to replant on that land is a scam). Are poor people being displaced to plant the trees? Will the trees thrive on that piece of land without maintenance like watering? Are the trees intended to all live, they do get very large and usually are planted more densely in the beginning and then some die as they get bigger so the crown of the tree shades the ground. Does planting trees displace wildlife habitat for browsers or animals that need thermal cover like moose? Do you really think this is a good allocation of land, like for instance in land that can support agriculture or housing instead set aside for every dead person, or maybe just for rich dead people?

Bah.