Ethiopia Plants 350 Million Trees To Help With Climate Crisis

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(CNN)Ethiopia planted more than 353 million trees in 12 hours on Monday, which officials believe is a world record.

The burst of tree planting was part of a wider reforestation campaign named "Green Legacy," spearheaded by the country's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. Millions of Ethiopians across the country were invited to take part in the challenge and within the first six hours, Ahmed tweeted that around 150 million trees had been planted.
"We're halfway to our goal," he said and encouraged Ethiopians to "build on the momentum in the remaining hours." After the 12-hour period ended, the Prime Minister took to Twitter again to announce that Ethiopia not only met its "collective #GreenLegacy goal," but exceeded it.


According to Farm Africa, an organization working on reforestation efforts in East Africa and helping farmers out of poverty, less than 4% of Ethiopia's land is forested, compared to around 30% at the end of the 19th century.
The landlocked country is also suffering from the effects of climate crisis, with land degradation, soil erosion, deforestation, and recurrent droughts and flooding exacerbated by agriculture. Eighty percent of Ethiopia's population depends on agriculture as a livelihood.
In 2017, Ethiopia joined more than 20 other African nations in pledging to restore 100 million hectares of land as part of the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative.
A recent study estimated that restoring the world's lost forests could remove two thirds of all the planet-warming carbon that is in the atmosphere because of human activity.
The study, carried out by researchers at Swiss university ETH Zurich, calculated that restoring degraded forests all over the world could capture about 205 billion tons of carbon in total. Global carbon emissions are around 10 billion tons per year.

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Ethiopia plants more than 350 million trees in 12 hours - CNN

Ethiopia planted more than 353 million trees in 12 hours on Monday, which officials believe is a world record.
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some good news......i'll be damned

its still in light of bad news but I'll take it

the air taste better already
 
Peeped this on reddit and saw and interesting comment with people agreeing.

We're talking about a government that shut down the internet for an extended period last month after surviving a "coup" attempt that probably wasn't a real coup attempt. The Chief of the Army and a regional Attorney General were killed. Mass detentions are ongoing, and the leader of the opposition NAMA party and dozens of party members were arrested on Friday.
On that same day, news reports emerge that Ethiopia is going to plant 200 million trees in one day.
Lo and behold, only a few days later, they nearly doubled that. Amazing!
Maybe - just maybe - 350 million tress planted in Ethiopia in a day is just bullshit propaganda to distract from what would appear to be a collapse in Ethiopian democracy.
Edit - They actually shut down the internet a couple of days before the supposed coup attempt was thwarted.
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Also worth mentioning is that this is all coming from the Ethiopian governments tweets, thats it. Another thing that really is amazing, thats mentioned in the CNN article, is the previous record holder, they beat. Makes you have more questions IMO.

In 2017, India set the world record when around 1.5 million volunteers planted 66 million in 12 hours.
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Guess this is gonna make me sound arrogant, but first off I'm glad they did this. Now, the arrogant part: I thought of the same thing for Ethiopia and the Sahara desert. I even posted it back on AHH old days, but someone said it wouldn't work cause of the equator factor drying up the seeds. I said it wouldn't work cause I ain't have that type of money; but I felt that since the Europeans went and threw salt on a lot of East Africa and North African lands so that fields couldn't grow--it would make sense to PLANT TREES so that they could regain agriculture that I'd read about from those bible days; and maybe there wouldn't be a damn desert and water with plants can return. Glad to know and see the process is being done.
 
lukekylestanley3317 said:
Guess this is gonna make me sound arrogant, but first off I'm glad they did this. Now, the arrogant part: I thought of the same thing for Ethiopia and the Sahara desert. I even posted it back on AHH old days, but someone said it wouldn't work cause of the equator factor drying up the seeds. I said it wouldn't work cause I ain't have that type of money; but I felt that since the Europeans went and threw salt on a lot of East Africa and North African lands so that fields couldn't grow--it would make sense to PLANT TREES so that they could regain agriculture that I'd read about from those bible days; and maybe there wouldn't be a damn desert and water with plants can return. Glad to know and see the process is being done.
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You might want to check the actual landscape of Ethiopia. It's not a "damn desert".
 
This is cool, but I heard the destruction of ocean flora or something like that is actually a much bigger deal than the loss of trees. I could be wrong about that.
 
Mister said:
You might want to check the actual landscape of Ethiopia. It's not a "damn desert".
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Really dude? I thought the Danakil Desert (known as the hottest place on Earth) was in Northern Ethiopia, and attached to the Sahara desert as I also mentioned. You might want to check on it being a damn desert before telling me there's not a desert there. HOw can a person incorrectly attempt to correct someone???...... and then quote me. I never said all of Ethiopia was a desert.
 
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lukekylestanley3317 said:
Really dude? I thought the Danakil Desert (known as the hottest place on Earth) was in Northern Ethiopia. You might want to check on it being a damn desert before telling me there's not a desert there.
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Who said there isn't a desert there? There's a desert in California. It doesn't make California a damn desert. You mentioned one portion having a desert, what about the rest of Ethiopia? I actually looked up the information so I know your original statement to be false. You made it like Ethiopia as a whole was a desert. Not even close. But nice try.
 
Mister said:
Who said there isn't a desert there? There's a desert in California. It doesn't make California a damn desert. You mentioned one portion having a desert, what about the rest of Ethiopia? I actually looked up the information so I know your original statement to be false. You made it like Ethiopia as a whole was a desert. Not even close. But nice try.
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So you looked up to see if there was a desert in Ethiopia, saw there was a desert, and decided to forward me to say Ethiopia wasn't a desert??? Ethiopia's once fertile land has turned dry. Some of it is still fertile. You are taking extremely away from my point of addressing and complimenting the planting of tree seeds in certain African lands where trees could help. My point was to the dry places in Africa that could benefit from trees (which the desert of Ethiopia was included). My point was not to speak on a history lesson tangent of Ethiopia in vanity for your ego's sake.
 
lukekylestanley3317 said:
So you looked up to see if there was a desert in Ethiopia, saw there was a desert, and decided to forward me to say Ethiopia wasn't a desert??? Ethiopia's once fertile land has turned dry. Some of it is still fertile. You are taking extremely away from my point of addressing and complimenting the planting of tree seeds in certain African lands where trees could help. My point was to the dry places in Africa that could benefit from trees (which the desert of Ethiopia was included). My point was not to speak on a history lesson tangent of Ethiopia in vanity for your ego's sake.
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No, I went and confirmed before correcting you because I knew Ethiopia wasn't a damn desert but I like to make sure before I speak.

You typed a whole lot instead of just stating that you didn't know/realize that Ethiopia isn't as dry as TV ads will make you believe.

Has zero to do with my ego and everything to do with getting the correct facts out there.
 
Mister said:
No, I went and confirmed before correcting you because I knew Ethiopia wasn't a damn desert but I like to make sure before I speak.

You typed a whole lot instead of just stating that you didn't know/realize that Ethiopia isn't as dry as TV ads will make you believe.

Has zero to do with my ego and everything to do with getting the correct facts out there.
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Let me correct you again. 1st you assumed in my first statement I was saying Ethiopia was a desert. 2nd you assumed I said Ethiopia was a desert. 3rd I said "Ethiopia and the Sahara Desert", not that Ethiopia was a desert. I never said the Sahara desert was Ethiopia or that Ethiopia was a desert (until I had to correct your assumption and state that a desert was in Ethiopia ALONG with being known as the hottest location on Earth sometimes). I was referring as stated later in the paragraph to dry lands and the equator and temperature effects. It is like saying The mountains of Georgia and Iowa can have high winds. I'm not saying Iowa is the mountain. You read what you wanted to read into it bc you wanted for some reason to look for something to disagree with and forward me on to make yourself seem smart, when you were incorrect on what I said and what I was talking about, thus you were just a distraction .
 
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lukekylestanley3317 said:
Let me correct you again. 1st you assumed in my first statement I was saying Ethiopia was a desert. 2nd you assumed I said Ethiopia was a desert. 3rd I said "Ethiopia and the Sahara Desert", not that Ethiopia was a desert. I was referring as stated later in the paragraph to dry lands and the equator and temperature effects. It is like saying The mountains of Georgia and Iowa have high winds. I'm not saying Iowa is the mountain. You read what you wanted to read into it bc you wanted for some reason to look for something to disagree with and forward me on to make yourself seem smart, when you were incorrect on what I said and what I was talking about, thus you were just a distraction .
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First you double down, now it's not what you meant and I misunderstood. Got it.

Glad you could clarify that.
 
lukekylestanley3317 said:
Guess this is gonna make me sound arrogant, but first off I'm glad they did this. Now, the arrogant part: I thought of the same thing for Ethiopia and the Sahara desert. I even posted it back on AHH old days, but someone said it wouldn't work cause of the equator factor drying up the seeds. I said it wouldn't work cause I ain't have that type of money; but I felt that since the Europeans went and threw salt on a lot of East Africa and North African lands so that fields couldn't grow--it would make sense to PLANT TREES so that they could regain agriculture that I'd read about from those bible days; and maybe there wouldn't be a damn desert and water with plants can return. Glad to know and see the process is being done.
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The Sahara did have a wet period like thousands of years ago. Something to do with the way the world was tilted idk.
 
Hellczar said:
The Sahara did have a wet period like thousands of years ago. Something to do with the way the world was tilted idk.
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Exactly. Also, the Sahara Desert used to be an ocean (Tethys), thus the whale bones found in the desert and THUS alot of Northern, Western and Eastern Africa's georgraphical/agricultural shifts that occurred as ocean went to rivers and rivers and plush land went to dry land and alot of other conversations you can imagine that lead to many places and eventually can take us to colonization. There's a lot more I can say, but i'll leave it below:
Sidenote Tangent to clarify the colonization statement based off this Ecosystem convo: In my opinion no civilization can sustain its economy in the midst of drastic climate change that destroys the majority of its agriculture. IMO (since evidence is sporadic at best concerning Africa) is that any civilization that faces drastic climate change and agricultural challenges will be faced with a dilemma. Often when people speak of Africa's challenges it is often not mentioned that Western, North, and East Africa had some severe changes that effected once thriving civilizations. If millions of people depended on an ocean or a plethora of large lakes and rivers for a host of living conditions, and over the course of "how ever long it took" (tens of thousands of years or more) that source of water that fueled the society was stripped THEN that would devastate any country or continent when considering we're talking about West, North, and East Africa. People would migrate, suffer and societies would not be as rich or strong as before; thus leaving them vulnerable and forcing them to adapt or move/migrate. Ironically, as this long period of time of when the drying of rivers was happening there was at the same time another long period of time when the thawing of once infertile lands of Europe were becoming fertile. This is a lot to write based off the thread topic of some tree seeds being planted, but oh well
 
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