This is my response to the mockery of tree plantation drives:
One needs to understand that nobody is planting 'trees' - they are only trying to grow 'plants'.
How many plants do you think survive in each tree plantation drive? The maximum percentage reached is about 70%. So, if you grow 100 plants, maximum of 70 would only survive and that too only if great care is taken.
Just take a look at this article:
http://indianexpress.com/…/2-cr-trees-plantation-drive-buo…/
To reach merely 33% forest cover, we need "400 crore" trees. So, all these tree plantation drives are actually not sufficient enough to cover that. We are not even talking about 50% forest cover, just 33%.
Everybody can plant tree saplings. One very important factor most of us conveniently forget is the rate of deforestation:
http://time.com/4019277/trees-humans-deforestation/
We have 400 billion trees of which 15 billion trees are cut every year. This means, if nobody plants anything, we will be out of trees in the world in just a few years - within our lifetime! The plants that you grow today will not become trees by tomorrow - they take their own time.
So, my request to such people who mock is that if you don't plant trees, it is fine. Please stop making fun of people who do! This is not just for our generation but for our children as well that such tree plantation drives happen and flourish successfully.
One needs to understand that nobody is planting 'trees' - they are only trying to grow 'plants'.
How many plants do you think survive in each tree plantation drive? The maximum percentage reached is about 70%. So, if you grow 100 plants, maximum of 70 would only survive and that too only if great care is taken.
Just take a look at this article:
http://indianexpress.com/…/2-cr-trees-plantation-drive-buo…/
To reach merely 33% forest cover, we need "400 crore" trees. So, all these tree plantation drives are actually not sufficient enough to cover that. We are not even talking about 50% forest cover, just 33%.
Everybody can plant tree saplings. One very important factor most of us conveniently forget is the rate of deforestation:
http://time.com/4019277/trees-humans-deforestation/
We have 400 billion trees of which 15 billion trees are cut every year. This means, if nobody plants anything, we will be out of trees in the world in just a few years - within our lifetime! The plants that you grow today will not become trees by tomorrow - they take their own time.
So, my request to such people who mock is that if you don't plant trees, it is fine. Please stop making fun of people who do! This is not just for our generation but for our children as well that such tree plantation drives happen and flourish successfully.
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