Does planting trees actually cool the planet? - Carolyn Beans
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In fighting climate change, few solutions are discussed more than planting lots and lots of trees. It sounds simple enough: trees absorb CO2 from the atmosphere, so planting more should help eliminate greenhouse gasses. The trouble is, tree planting efforts don’t always work as planned. So, when is it bad to plant trees? Carolyn Beans explores strategies to successfully re-green the planet.
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Carolyn Beans
- Director Ivana Bošnjak, Thomas Johnson Volda
- Narrator Alexandra Panzer
- Music Stephen LaRosa
- Sound Designer Stephen LaRosa
- Director of Production Gerta Xhelo
- Producer Sazia Afrin
- Editorial Director Alex Rosenthal
- Editorial Producer Shannon Odell
- Fact-Checker Charles Wallace
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Does planting trees actually cool the planet? - Carolyn Beans
This video provides important insight into how trees contribute to storing carbon and lowering temperatures. And this has the effect of increasing human awareness of the importance of planting trees for environmental balance and also global cooling.
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Dainella Espina Bruce
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In fact, it highlights the need to protect native trees, instead of deforestate them and later putting other trees instead
