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Trump says the U.S. will join the Trillion Trees Initiative

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President Trump's appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland was a mixed bag.

The theme of the event was climate change, but Trump chose to use his 30 minutes of speaking time to brag about the "spectacular" U.S. economy and encouraged world leaders to invest in America.

He didn't mention climate change once.

Trump is a notorious climate change skeptic who once claimed it was a hoax created by the Chinese. He's also made a bunch of bizarre statements about the environment that show he knows very little about the topic.

"There is a cooling and there is a heating, and I mean, look: It used to not be climate change. It used to be global warming," he told Piers Morgan. "That wasn't working too well, because it was getting too cold all over the place."

However, there was one tiny moment of positivity in his speech, he announced the U.S would join the World Economic Forum's Trillion Tree Initiative.

"We're committed to conserving the majesty of God's creation and the natural beauty of our world," Trump said.

"Today, I'm pleased to announce the United States will join the one trillion trees initiative being launched here at the World Economic Forum." He added the U.S. "will continue to show strong leadership in restoring, growing, and better managing our trees and our forests."

The Trillion Tree Initiative is based on the findings of ETH Zurich professor Dr. Thomas Crowther and his team at Crowther Lab. In 2019, he claimed that by planting 1.2 trillion trees we could cancel out the last 10 years of CO2 emissions.

"There's 400 gigatons [of C02] now, in the 3 trillion trees, and if you were to scale that up by another trillion trees that's in the order of hundreds of gigatons captured from the atmosphere – at least 10 years of anthropogenic emissions completely wiped out," Crowther said.

He also claimed that trees are "our most powerful weapon in the fight against climate change."

Trees are a powerful weapon against climate change because as they grow they remove carbon dioxide from the air, store carbon in the trees and soil, and release oxygen into the atmosphere.

Unfortunately, the process of planting a trillion trees will take decades.

In his address, Trump also had harsh words for environmental activists saying the world must "reject the perennial prophets of doom and their predictions of the apocalypse."

Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz criticized the president for failing to address the climate in his speech. "He managed to say absolutely zero on climate change," Stiglitz said. "Meanwhile we're going to roast."

Seventeen-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg also criticized Trump's announcement saying, "Planting trees is good of course, but it is nowhere near enough of what is needed,"

"We're not telling you to offset your emissions by just paying someone else to plant trees in places like Africa, while at the same time forests like the Amazon are being slaughtered at an infinitely higher rate," Thunberg said.

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oil&gas

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Maybe Trump is only a climate change denier outward.
I trust there is a better chance Trump will deliver on this initiative
than Trudeau fulfilling his promise of zero emission by 2050.
 

Mr Deeds

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I agree but Trump will be gone from office before the first tree is planted. hopefully so will Trudeau
 

The Oracle

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I agree but Trump will be gone from office before the first tree is planted. hopefully so will Trudeau
As Ben Shapiro says. It's not out of the realm of possibility that Trump loses the total vote by more than last time but still takes the electoral college.

The DNC it looks like is putting all of their eggs in the Joe Biden basket.

If Biden were say 10-15 years younger I would that would be a safe bet. But now with all his gaffs and mental lapses.......
 

jcpro

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So, where does that leave us in Canada? We plant more than half a billion trees every year. Does Greta know?
 

WyattEarp

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There is unrest in the forest
There is trouble with the trees
For the maples want more sunlight
And the oaks ignore their pleas


Another TERB moment brought to you by Canadian Content requirements.
 

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So, where does that leave us in Canada? We plant more than half a billion trees every year. Does Greta know?
How many do you cut down?
 

jcpro

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How many do you cut down?
All the statistical data is readily available. Canada has a very decent forestry management system. It's one part of our provincial governments that actually works pretty well.
 

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All the statistical data is readily available. Canada has a very decent forestry management system. It's one part of our provincial governments that actually works pretty well.
Except when the Ford government cut it.
 

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A baby step. He will go down in history as one of the great villains for the destruction he will have wreaked to the environment.
 

jcpro

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Except when the Ford government cut it.
Planting trees is not any kind of priority in Ontario as the private concerns replace the trees they take for lumber. As is the fire damage always repaired. Municipalities are also heavily involved in tree planting. Btw, most of the provincial surface is already covered with trees. You just don't know the province you live in.
 

Frankfooter

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Planting trees is not any kind of priority in Ontario as the private concerns replace the trees they take for lumber. As is the fire damage always repaired. Municipalities are also heavily involved in tree planting. Btw, most of the provincial surface is already covered with trees. You just don't know the province you live in.
Sigh.
Ontario replants about 1/3 of what they cut down every year.
https://cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/statsprofile/overview/on

Ontario used to plant about 2.5 million trees a year and was going to catch up until Ford cut 50 million seedlings that were already being grown.
 

Insidious Von

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Canada's forestry is relatively well managed - fast growing, cheep and cheerful eucalyptus trees are sensitive to cold weather. The threat of instantaneous conflagrations isn't there. Where we run into problems is in areas made up of mostly pine trees, they go up relatively quickly. California replaced their cut down deciduous forests with eucalyptus trees and they are paying the price for it. They grow naturally in Australia. Sumatra cut down most of its rainforest for palm oil production...the smoke from their massive fires is chocking people in Singapore.
 
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