Help Our Environment And Plant A Tree
Did you know that all around the world, 3 to 6 billion trees are cut down each and every year. This has to do with the demand for items that are made from trees. Writing paper and household tissues are an illustration of this, as well as the timber used to build houses. We all should take responsibility in keeping our timberlands even if there are products we have to use that are made from trees. {As a small solution, to save a few trees, there are lovely electric woodstoves available to purchase so instead of installing wood burning units we can install energy efficient electric stoves.}
Despite the fact that we have Arbor Day, and we all must plant a tree every Arbor Day, that is simply taking care of a small part of the problem. The reality is, trees are not being planted by the majority of the population. If people could do our part and plant a tree, it would make a big difference.
There are roughly seven billion humans alive in the world right now. That is only an approximation because you can’t keep an exact count. Nonetheless, we could replace the trees that are cut down each year if each one of those individuals did actually plant a tree on Arbor day. However, this won’t ever take place.
Therefore, planting trees is something you need to consider if you are concerned about the air we breathe and the planet. And I don’t mean to just go out once each year and plant a tree. How about going out and planting trees each week or at least every month? The reason is because someone has to compensate for all of those using our resources but refuse to plant a tree for whatever reason.
Would you believe that on Arbor Day, only approximately 8 and 15 million trees are planted? On that basis, we nevertheless need to take that figure up by a further 5 billion. And every year, it simply keeps getting worse.
Whereas we all must make the effort to plant trees, I have an idea that might resolve this once and for all. It could be made a legal requirement that anyone involved in cutting down trees must replace each tree cut down with two newly planted ones and this would go a long way to resolving the problem.
At present, this is not likely to happen and hence the job to preserve the number of trees in the world is in our own hands. And it will not take that much for us to replace the tree population yearly. The number of trees cut down yearly could be replaced if ten percent of the world’s population planted one tree once a month. On average, that would be around 7 billion trees being planted every year. And that 1 billion excess trees are exactly what we need in order to get our tree population back to where it has to be.
Planting a tree is a way people can help the earth. Again, it only takes 10% of the total number of people in the world to begin making a difference. And you could be one of them.