Rejoicing Hopefully

GREAT THINGS ARE happening in the world, despite all the doom and gloom. Among them are two in particular, the creation of two organizations, actually diffferent branches of the same organization, one ccalled "Team Trees", and teh other "Team Seas". Merely typing those words into google should be sufficient to get you to their respective websites, a visit which is well worthwhile. The purpose of Team trees is to plant trees all over the world, and the purpose of Team Seas is to clean up the world's oceans. Both admirable causes, we can all agree. In fact, both causes are absolutely vital to the continued existence of humanity on this planet Earth, so, yeah, worthwhile projects indeed. The plan is to plant thiery million tress by raising thirty million dollars, one dollar at at time from anybody and everybody, one tree per dollar. The Team Seas project consits of removing trash from the ocean, also one dollar per pound of garbage, and to raise millions of dollars from millions of people. One of their tactics is to string nets across the mouths of the several big rivers which spew most of the trash into the world's oceans, and to collect it, remove it from the water, and properly dispose of it. They claim on their website that so far they have removed well over thirty million pounds of trash from the oceans. Millions of trees are already planted and growing, thanks to Team Trees. What we need is about one trillion new trees worldwide, and to get all the garbage out of all the world's bodies of water, correct? Simply knowing that such efforts are being made is encouraging, enough to give one hope in a world which desperately needs it. The trick now is to sustain and grow these effotrs, to include all of us, to make them smashingly successful. and it could and can be done. If a single person reads this propagandistic essy and decides to contribute to the efffort to save the Earth, and then tellw two other people about Team Trees and Team Seas and gets both of them to contribute, the explosion of organized human planetary ecosystem saving is up and running, off to the races, as they say. We hear a great deal about deforestation, climate change, polluting the oceans these days, to go along with all the wars and violence and pandemic, to name just a few. It might be valuable to occasionally remind ourselves that all of these are of our own making, and that we can, we have the power to repair, correct, and eliminate them all. The human race, all of it, must organized, make a coordinated plan, and implement it, together. There is no other way, and the only is the easy way, the correct way. Reforesting the planet and cleaning up the oceans is a great way to begin.