Andy Kondrat
May 29, 2008 |
8:50 pm EST
Remember that book How Much is a Million? Well, nowadays, we think bigger, and one group wants you to think about how much a billion is. That is to say: If you were to plant a billion trees, it would cover 2.5 million acres of Atlantic forest. This, by the way, is not a thought experiment - it’s a real goal from the people at The Nature Conservancy.
The target date is 2015 - only seven years to plant a billion trees in Brazil. At this point, only seven percent of what once were the Brazilian tropical forests remain. As each tree disappears, more carbon is released into the environment and the global climate becomes slightly more unstable.
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