Surviving By Planting Trees

WHEN I BUILT MY HOUSE (actually I bought it from a builder who hired people to build it, but in America, what we own, we claim we built) eleven years ago, the half acre, a new construction, looked like the surface of mars, with a nice ranch style house in the middle. Nothing but red dirt, rocks, and a few sprigs of crabgrass. On closing day, I nearly backed out of the deal, thinking the yard was beyond all hope. Then, II picked up a rock. than another. I planted grass, some shrubs, and twenty saplings, oak, red bud, and ornamental maple mostly. Eleven years later it is the apple of my eye, with forty foot trees around the property edge, lined with shrubs, burning bush, azalea, and thick, lush grass, all very beautiful. Now I'm glad I didn't give up. When human kind forest became neolithic, a short ten thousand years or so ago, there were an estimated seven trillion trees on the planet. Now, using computers and satellite photography we have learned that roughly half have been taken down by human, leaving about three and a half trillion still standing. With clear cutting and deforestation, we lose a net ten billion or so a year, which is unsustainable. What we need to do is plant a trillion trees within the next five years, a seeming impossibility, but not. There is a spreading awareness of the need to do this, as all across the globe groups of tree planters are forming, and tree planting projects are getting underway. In New York City, for instance, the number of trees lining the city streets has increased from maybe thirty five thousand ten years ago to well over one hundred thousand today, thanks largely by people like former mayor Bloomberg and other concerned citizens. New York's current mayor,a democrat, is totally on board with the tree project, and will doubtless add to it in New York. Even though my own yard is pretty much filled up with trees, I keep thinking about really pushing it, planting several more red bud and dogwood, and making my property a virtual forest. I love trees that much. Everywhere I go i see places, yards, business property, streets, where one or more trees could be planted with no problems, and a lot of gain for us all. And I don't think I'm the only one. all over the world, more and more, people are going to be talking about planting large numbers of trees, then organizing, then going out and planting. Once we have a trillion new trees up and growing, we can stop, look around, take a deep breath, and decide what to do from there. Each tree planted by each human is another step forward to our survival, into our grand children's future.......PLEASE TELL OTHERS ABOUT THIS WEB SITE, A FORCE FOR PROGRESS! THANKS!