The Trouble with Trees

This video looks critically at the rush to plant trees which is often thought of as a climate change silver bullet. The video strongly dispels this myth and shows that by in large the cap and trade tree planting business is actually bad for the planet because it focuses on monoculture tree plantations (that's where the money is) which store a fraction of the carbon of a natural forest and is uniquely bad for biodiversity and the people that live near them. It shows an alternative as well but you are not going to like it. Just leave the land alone and it will on its own regenerated into a bio diverse mature forest -- in time! Keep in mind that as Paul Hawkin of Drawdown says, "there are 100 proven and scalable solutions to drawdown but no silver bullet -- we have to do them all.

 

I also provide as second video featuring Simon Lewis, professor of global change science in which he restates the trouble with trees but then goes on to promote biomass burning, energy generations and direct air capture which is according to the consensus of 200 drawdown contributing scientists not yet proven or scalable, lacks data sets sufficient to make conclusions and include in the top 100 solutions

Awareness vid for XR Oct 7

Regenerative Agriculture

This is an extensive UN report on the Drawdown identified solution "regenerative agriculture " entitled Growing Better.  It is linked here to our google drive for access to this important 237 page report

Guerrilla poster ninjas get the job done

Greta gets tough on the UN

First she is cute and then youth warms our hearts and give us hope and then Greta asks "How dare you ask what my message is ... why aren't you fixing this?"

Greta Thunberg on NPR

Thunberg also believes the U.S. has an "incredibly important" role to play in fighting climate change. "You are such a big country," she says. "In Sweden, when we demand politicians to do something, they say, 'It doesn't matter what we do — because just look at the U.S.' "I think you have an enormous responsibility" to lead climate efforts, she adds. "You have a moral responsibility to do that."

Greta Thunberg on Daily Show

Something Drastic Has To Happen --Roger Hallam on BBC

This is worth watching as much for the persistent, clueless question asked by the shows moderator as by Roger's message. We must understand how they don't, indeed can't get it. Only disruption can change this.

BBC report on Extinction Rebellion

Greta Thunberg Video

Greta's new story coming to US by sail boat and assessment of our movement is compelling.