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[–] ScientiaPotentia ago 

They are heroes.

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[–] Whitworth 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Brazilian couple.

Isn’t it crazy how distant foreign problems can be both caused and resolved by the locals with no first-world intervention or emotional manipulation of American schoolchildren involved?

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[–] Scablifter ago 

Isn't it crazy how Americans reduce nearly every issue into revolving around them and their problems?

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[–] Stopmotionhistory ago 

The people who farm trees replant them so they can harvest again ib 20 years, do farmers replant after a corn crop? THE TREE FARMER replants. This is hippi dippy bullshit.

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[–] Kannibal [S] ago 

well in this case, the original planters could no be bothered replanting, because it was too much trouble somehow

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[–] Scablifter ago 

Ah, the eternal cynic, one who belives that others are just as bad if not worse than they are.

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[–] Stopmotionhistory ago 

I am pretty awesome, but TY for labeling me and defining it too, it shows how smart you are, Have you ever considered that you are in a huge psy op? Prove this wrong... https://www.elitedaily.com/news/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-friends/1619008 any of this ... https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2004-10-28-0410280265-story.html ... All of this FACT vs your emotion, https://thinkprogress.org/jeffrey-epstein-sex-offender-lawsuit-donald-trump-bill-clinton-lolita-express-98886e15c076/ ... YOU are calling me a cynic but maybe i'm a realist. What do you think. ARE you afraid to read into the facts? You are all sheep being told there will be FREE energy developed by a time traveler who is putting Satanists in Jail. Listen to yourself. Q is real!!! But what if Q is a psy op for the NEW NWO?

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[–] fluxusp ago 

Gotta keep on pushing climate change, don't we?

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[–] Mr_Roy18 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I always tell myself I want to do something like this, on a smaller scale of course. Are there any databases that would tell you endemic/native plants and trees that are recommended to be planted in any given region?

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[–] DishingShitLikeA 1 point 3 points (+4|-1) ago 

Cool. But that article is absolutely dripping with propoganda.

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[–] Guy_Justsome 1 point 3 points (+4|-1) ago 

As we all know, an area almost equivalent in size to South Africa i.e.129 million hectares of forest have been lost from the Earth forever since 1990.

lost from the Earth forever

And then the rest of this story contradicts this rhetoric.

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[–] DishingShitLikeA 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago 

Good observation. What I couldn't stand is the ploys to tug on emotions. I became disgusted and gave up once it seemed clear there was no real meat left to the story.

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[–] Arcesious 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

No carbon taxes required, who would've thought?

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[–] ScientiaPotentia 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Trees multiply quickly to fill in spaces between them. So if you plant a line of trees 10 metres apart within a couple of years a tree shoot up somewhere in the radius of each tree and they propagate from there. That's how forests grow. Trees propagate and fill the spaces between them over time. All they would have had to do is plan a few thousand trees or even just spread seeds and wait. The tree growth will propagate exponentially until density limits growth. It's still a massive undertaking and an immense amount of work though.

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[–] selpai 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

You know this is an organization, right?

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[–] lanre 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Read the article. They didn't do it alone.

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[–] theysayso 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Also, it is completely possible to plant that many trees in a day. I used to do this sort of work as a summer high school job and you can plant this many trees (as saplings) in an hour.

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[–] NewWorld 1 point 15 points (+16|-1) ago 

The couple hired around 24 workers in the beginning and planted the first seed in December 1999. Later this organization was joined by numerous volunteers over the years.

So, it looks like a lot of people were involved in the effort but the couple was the driving force behind the forest restoration. Dedicating 20 years of your life is still a major undertaking and the results are impressive. It just shows what a few people can manage when they apply themselves wholeheartedly to a task.

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