LET’S PLANT A TREE
by Aileen Fisher
It’s time to plant a tree, a tree.
What shall it be? What shall it be?
Let’s plant a pine—we can’t go wrong:
a pine is green the whole year long.
Let’s plant a maple—more than one,
to shade us from the summer sun.
Let’s plant a cherry—you know why:
there’s nothing like a cherry pie!
Let’s plant an elm, the tree of grace,
where robins find a nesting place.
Let’s plant an apple—not too small,
with flowers in spring and fruit in fall.
Let’s plant a fir—so it can be
a lighted outdoor Christmas tree.
Let’s plant a birch, an oak, a beech,
there’s something extra-nice in each…
in winter, summer, spring or fall.
Let’s plant a…
why not plant them ALL?
There are actually a lot of people doing just that 
Great people!!!
What is actually not so well known yet is that growing trees, lots and lots of them, all kinds of them is a serious climate change solution, one more way – actually a obvious way – to reduce greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere.
And it does not need politicians to agree or any sophisticated technological wizardry.
Research shows a trillion trees could be planted to capture huge amount of carbon dioxide
But it is high time to act now, because the forces of destruction are active as ever .. .. and they are very effective.
We are destroying rainforests so quickly they may be gone in 100 years
We have already managed to clean-cut a lot of land in the past.
Just look at Southern Italy, look at the Greek Islands, the Peloponnese …
Look at the statistics (but don’t throw up, its horrific!)
Wikipedia – Deforestation by region
But hey!
Some people are already
on the way!
