Comments on: Peru Planting 512,820 Trees a Day to Fight Climate Change

By: evergreen tree care

evergreen tree care — Mon, 17 May 2010 20:54:43 +0000

I really liked your writing, keep at it for us all!

By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:22:04 +0000

How will that many trees coming to market at close to the same time affect the price? Have they considered just what in Hell they will do with all that wood, when it comes of age? Is there a chain of events that builds slow steady prosperity here? The whole story has not been told! Dumping on the free markets of the world is not always the best solution to social problems requiring employment in steady fashion over a longer, more humanly scaled time span! Nation building requires greatest consideration for the human factor! Just planting trees? Not good enough!

By: employee clockin clockout

employee clockin clockout — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:51:23 +0000

i love it… this should be our stimulus package

By: political opinion

political opinion — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:18:45 +0000

i love it… this should be our stimulus package

By: salwarpe

salwarpe — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:45:16 +0000

It makes me wince. Quick fix solutions?

By: Nancy

Nancy — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:32:44 +0000

Interesting work being done to slow climate change. Why is Peru planting non-native tree species like the eucalyptus?

By: JesseMat

JesseMat — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:06:45 +0000

If we legalized hemp (the fiber kind, not the kind you smoke) in America then a substantial amount of logging for paper use could be cut back.

By: Peru Plants Half a Million Trees a Day to Combat Climate Change | An American in Lima

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:15:45 +0000

[...] According to ANDINA and other news outlets, Peru’s Ministry of Agriculture has initiated an ambitious countrywide tree-planting campaign to counter the effects of climate change. [...]

By: lynx

lynx — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:28:05 +0000

I agree with Don – planting non-native species ruins this project. Peru needs to be replanting their rainforests which have been devastated by logging (legan and otherwise), and doing so with the same native trees that grow there naturally; not setting up giant tree plantations full of non-natives. Eucalyptus and pepper trees are actually incredibly poor choices since they are both notoriously invasive and negatively impact the ph of the soil and harm other trees.

the ones who will benefit from this are the timber companies that will get to harvest these trees, not the poor and certainly not the environment.

By: Erik van Erne, Milieunet Foundation

Erik van Erne, Milieunet Foundation — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:01:07 +0000

Great project. That will help UNEP to reach their target of 7.000.000.000 trees planted in our World.

http://www.stichtingmilieunet.nl/andersbekekenblog/?p=2890