Urban Tree Planting: A Solution To Climate Change?

"When it comes to cities, we know that planting trees will help urbanites endure the climate crisis by creating shade while photosynthesis can cool the atmosphere. But what many city planners and scientists have trouble implementing are cost-efficient and effective climate mitigation strategies. Many look to trees as an ideal solution, but even that’s proven hard to implement. In 2007, the City of Boston announced its plan to plant 100,000 trees in 10 years, but struggled to keep newly planted trees alive and ultimately failed to meet its goal.

"Since then, the climate crisis has only gotten worse with record breaking global summer temperatures and dangerous heat waves. A sweeping 2021 climate report released by the United Nations found the crisis is accelerating, not slowing, increasing the urgency to implement the best possible solutions to curb global climate disaster. So how can cities like Boston hope to succeed in mitigating climate change and cut their own carbon emissions?"

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The MacArthur 'Genius' Changing How We Think About Urban Trees

Loneliness From Poor Urban Planning

"Loneliness is an epidemic that long-predates the COVID lockdowns that only made things worse but it's not primarily cultural or even technological in origin. The issue largely has to do with how our built environment is designed and then social and technological aspects compound the problem."

Click on the link below for a deep analysis of factors that contribute to loneliness that only better society planning can change:

Urban Planet 2050

One of my favorite podcasts is The John Batchelor Show.  He interviews non-fiction writers on a wide variety of topics.  The following podcast was from a few days ago and I found it particularly interesting regarding the social dynamics and use of resources as humanity continues to be more and more urbanized.