20 March

Hmm, I accidentally deleted my earlier post on this. We need not just more trees, but more plants in general. Not only do they protect the soil, they actually generate rain. Some argue that climate change could be alleviated just by reversing a lot of our land clearing. And you don't need to clear land to farm, there's no reason at all a farm can't also be a diverse polyculture. We clear massive amounts of land and then wonder why we don't get rain. We blame 'droughts', as if it's nothing we can control. And our cities are baking in the heat, when just having trees could make the hugest difference to urban environments. They look nice too, leafy suburbs and all that.