Can trees stop climate change? | DW Documentary

Drought, forest fires and increasingly frequent storms. Climate change is destroying our forests. All over the world, people are looking for ways to keep them from dying out. Yet nature itself knows best what forests need to thrive.
Reforestation works not only in the countryside, but also in the city. In urban areas, planting trees can help combat climate change, restore ecosystems and keep cities cooler - as forest scientist Stefan Scharfe well knows. He’s already planted 14 ‘tiny forests’ in Germany and Poland. The concept of planting dense, fast-growing woodland in urban wastelands was originally developed by Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki.
In the shade of a multi-storey car park on the grounds of a hospital in the city of Herford, Scharfe has planted native plants, shrubs and trees close together. "Preparing the soil is key,” he says. "What we do is imitate a forest soil that’s decades old." The mini forest lowers the air and soil temperature in the summer heat and provides shade as well as a habitat for birds and insects.
Miriam Prochnow and Wigold Schaffer have dedicated their entire lives to saving the Atlantic Forest in Brazil. "We are witnessing an unprecedented crisis for humanity and cannot afford not to fight," says Prochnow. In the 1970s, the two started growing tropical trees on their terrace. Today they run a kind of non-profit tree nursery with 25 employees, and grow 200 different, mainly old species. To date, they’ve planted nine million trees, combatting clear-cutting in the Atlantic Forest.
Meanwhile, researchers at the Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development in Germany want to gain a better understanding of the forest ecosystem with the help of Indigenous peoples. They’ve been working with Colombia’s Kogi people, known for their intuitive approach to nature. Their views on drought and pest damage provide inspiration for scientists like Carsten Mann: "For me, the main message of the Kogi is that it will be difficult to work against the laws of nature, and that we need to accept that." The researchers now want to use the knowledge of the Kogi to better protect forests in Germany.
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[@SickPrid3]

I hate when I see greenery removed from public spaces and replaced with some stupid "art" installation or just concrete slab 🤬🤬

[@CHMichael]

Or solar panels

[@FKTHESYSTEM063]

Bob Marley ~ Concrete Jungle

[@darinbauer8122]

Trees & art should coexist. ❤

[@CHMichael]

@@darinbauer8122 imagine that. Art that corresponds with the nature around it .

[@darinbauer8122]

@@CHMichael I'm a pagan. Your comment prompts a thought about Andy Goldworthy, Robert Smithson, and Christo. It also makes me think of indigenous traditional work as well. Thanx 4 nice thoughts!

[@annie1626]

Something for each of us to think about. Creating a tiny forest can be your legacy that will go on into the future and give meaning to your life, while paying it forward for the earth. None of us needs to wait for someone else to do it.

[@hunterhq295]

At the park near my house I try to plant trees too using the seedlings that grow around the area

[@ecoideazventures6417]

Yes exactly, i am proud to say i have created my tiny forests both in my farm and in a city park!

[@mulembo2]

Trees are our best environmental friends. They store CO2 in the soil and filter air for us. They do more good to us than harm. So, please everyone, plant a tree if you can. Big change starts with a small step. If we all act and work together, we absolutely can avert the catastrophic outcome.

[@TheStryderPrime]

First of all we need to control birth, we are destroying forest to get more land to build houses, more wood, more petroleum, more water..... because where we going to plant the trees ???

[@greggardiner895]

ecosia the search engine plants trees

[@someguy2135]

More important than planting new trees is preserving forests. What could each of us do to encourage that? Switch to a fully plant based diet! Animal agriculture, especially raising cows for meat, is a major cause of deforestation, habitat loss, and biodiversity loss. "While the wildfires raging in the Amazon rainforest may constitute an “international crisis,” they are hardly an accident. The vast majority of the fires have been set by loggers and ranchers to clear land for cattle. The practice is on the rise, encouraged by Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s populist pro-business president, who is backed by the country’s so-called “beef caucus.” While this may be business as usual for Brazil’s beef farmers, the rest of the world is looking on in horror. So, for those wondering how they could help save the rainforest, known as “the planet’s lungs” for producing about 20% of the world’s oxygen, the answer may be simple. Eat less meat."- CNN Another reason they burn the Amazon is to grow soy. "More than three-quarters (77%) of global soy is fed to livestock for meat and dairy production. Most of the rest is used for biofuels, industry or vegetable oils. Just 7% of soy is used directly for human food products such as tofu, soy milk, edamame beans, and tempeh." -Our World in Data Brazil is one of the world's top exporters of beef and soy.

[@QuitworkBehappy]

Incorrect trees are massive producers of methane, that is a far more potent greenhouse gas than CO2. The Amazon alone emites over 20 million tonnes of methane per year, more than the arctic tundra.

[@jacobsukovaty520]

Grasslands are more reliable than trees not saying trees are bad but grasslands are the least protected biome on earth

[@CHMichael]

It's also about buffering heat . Put trees around houses so it's not only hot rooftops..... for miles and miles . Trees can be an asset to city's. ..... and create Forrest where perma frost is retreating.

[@CHMichael]

@Lorin-GabrielLeaua-fm1lw that happens if you plant the wrong trees... as usual don't just go out and spread a bunch of exotic plants that will become a nuisance.

[@ADUAquascaping]

The trees' evapotranspiration can lower daytime temperatures by 2-3 degrees C, but that isn't really the point of mitigating the urban heat island effect. Heat island effects are measured at nighttime. This is because of thermal emissivity, specific heat capacity, heat sinks, and rural temperature comparisons. Evapotranspiration, which leads to evaporative cooling, can lower nighttime temperatures by 12 degrees C. And why didn't they mention reducing stormwater runoff pollution and increasing on-site detention of water, which leads to increased groundwater. We aren't really doing anything special. We're just mimicking and restoring nature.

[@yodieyuh6077]

@@Lorin-GabrielLeaua-fm1lw I disagree, due to personal experience. Have 30' and up trees outside of 'falling into my house' range and 15-20' trees within 'falling into my house' range. My 35' tall banyan tree complex deflects winds from Category 3 and 4 winds. During two separate eye walls I stood outside and watched 120+ mph winds roar over my house 35' overhead with about 20mph winds at house level. And then at least another 4 cat 2+ storms but not their eyewalls. My 30' live oaks deflect the wind from the other sides. My house and roof remain undamaged. Houses in the neighborhood that are in the open suffer more damage. One portion of the banyan complex fell in Jeanne, due to it being about 10 feet from a 15' deep canal that gimped the one portions root base. Using trees as windbreaks was very common in Florida up until the 80's. Mostly Australian Pines were used to protect orange groves, and they worked.

[@CHMichael]

@yodieyuh6077 your secret is not letting them grow past 35 ft . That's when they get you . I second your experience. Made it through Ian( cat 5 ) without any damage to my 80-year-old house. Trees buffering the wind was a big contributor.

[@DiakosDelvin]

@@Lorin-GabrielLeaua-fm1lw Trees have been in the business of of staying upright for longer than we've been out of caves. As long as we give them healthy soil to grow in with lots of roots holding it together and buddy trees to share the wind-strain it'll be fine, and if we really want to be safe we can trip dead branches. The problem arises when we plant solitary trees of decorative but weak species in loose "convenient" soil, destroy all deep rooted plants around them in favor of a shallow lawn.

[@dub395]

Tree is important to human life. No tree no water no life

[@RoseNZieg]

trees are only part of the solution. restoring wetlands and watersheds is another one that I rarely hear these eco-friendly people talk about.

[@ADUAquascaping]

Well, that can be our calling. I recently worked in a watershed division studying point and non-point source phosphorus pollution entering water bodies. Massive mapping/GIS project, field sampling and analysis, lab analysis, gained funding, led a team, wrote protocols, solutions, and surface hydrology methods. Easier said than done. It was a lot of work. The lake was huge. The trees' evapotranspiration can lower daytime temperatures by 2-3 degrees C, but that isn't really the point of mitigating the urban heat island effect. Heat island effects are measured at nighttime. This is because of thermal emissivity, specific heat capacity, heat sinks, and rural temperature comparisons. Evapotranspiration, which leads to evaporative cooling, can lower nighttime temperatures by 12 degrees C. And why didn't they mention reducing stormwater runoff pollution and increasing on-site detention of water, which leads to increased groundwater. We aren't really doing anything special. We're just mimicking and restoring nature.

[@kongwee1978]

Because these cannot hinder other nations right to do agriculture.

[@akhasshativeritsol1950]

Mossy Earth is doing some good wetland restoration projects. Definitely some people are aware of their important role in the ecosystem. Near where I grew up, there was a refuge called the Great Swamp that was almost turned into a massive 10000 acre airport in the 60s, but environmental groups were able to block it, and it's still there today :)

[@QuitworkBehappy]

trees are part of the problem. They reduce the planet's albedo causing further warming. They also produce and release methane...a far more potent greenhouse gas than CO2.

[@valentynatokar3264]

There are more wetland restoration projects in the coastal regions where people are facing floods due to the rising of the sea level.

[@DJG999]

Wish there were projects in central and southern African as well. So many beautiful trees slashed and burned to make way for grazing land. Wish there was a project to educate substance farmers that planting trees especially on the mountains will help store water in the surrounding land, replenish the water table and lesson crop failure.

[@emmanuelleb.9813]

there are

[@karlwheatley1244]

"So many beautiful trees slashed and burned to make way for grazing land. " A huge part of the problem globally is beef consumption. More burgers/steaks = Smaller forests. Period.

[@Nphen]

After the 10 minute mark, the Kogi come into the documentary and offer us timeless sage wisdom. I'm so glad I saw that whole section.

[@PaLikato]

They have been affected in different ways even though the bad ones, but restoring the tree is the best strategy for preventing climate change. 🎉🎉

[@QuitworkBehappy]

Trees contribute to global warming. They reduce the planet's albedo causing further warming. The also produce and release millions of tonnes methane...more than arctic tundra and the oceans.

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

It was a great documentary shared by a respectful ( DW ) documentary channel .thank you for sharing.. reforestation a great work for returning environmental health for fighting climate changes...

[@DWDocumentary]

Thanks a lot for watching and for your positive feedback. We appreciate you taking the time to comment and are glad you like our content!

[@Yogijihsi]

Dw please help us kindly make a short film to save our hasdeo and Bakshwa forest...

[@noorazfaruddin467]

Indeed natural forest was the best climate regulator, air conditioner, air purifier, natural ioniser, water catchment system aka flood regulator, erosion mitigator, and natural shade/ shelter.

[@QuitworkBehappy]

trees are part of the problem. They reduce the planet's albedo and produce millions of tonnes of methane that is a far more potent greenhouse gas than CO2. Any carbon sequestered by trees is brief, and will be released by fire or worse when they rot and become even more methane. Do your homework!

[@lucylocket5262]

My dad and I planted our first tree this year in Warsaw, Poland. We planted it in a lawn in our neighborhood. There was so little rain that I kept watering it weekly unit beginning of October. I expect I'll have to water it regularly throughout next spring and summer, until it grows bigger and stronger. I'm planning to plant more next year. If all of us plant just one tree and then take care of it for a while until it grows strong roots, we would resolve the issue of deforestation.

[@barkingsheep5224]

Support your baby trees with permaculture. There’s a few water saving tricks and a few ways to help your trees survive low rain seasons. Making the soil rich and dense and healthy means it will retain more water. See if biochar is right for you.

[@reginaerekson9139]

15:18 you know what’s nice for kids - planting pollinator gardens! It’s learning, fun and beautiful. It provides children a way to meaningfully contribute. They just need some grown ups money or lamé corporate lawns.

[@gracefulcat68]

nature rules everything. nature rules all.

[@hhwippedcream]

Thanks much for the overview of current efforts, DW. Quite heartening. I hope you can delve deeper into the processes that make this successful on your subject matter specific channels.

[@lourdesmurilloquintana5123]

I THANK you from the bottom of my heart and soul...

[@miahill6864]

Got inspired to plant few trees in my little backyard this fall. Thank you for educating me.

[@someutubchannel69]

Yes!

[@ramthianthomson601]

Great ❤❤❤!. Thanks x

[@th-pw8pn]

The council seem to be on a rampant crusade to cut down as many trees as they can where I live. Over the last few years some absolutely beautiful Chestnut, Beech, and Cedar trees have been felled along with too many of the old Lime, Yew, and nearly all the Elm. It's of course down to safety, disease, access or some other pressing issue, but old trees like that need to be treated with more respect, IMO...

[@lim8581]

This documentary beautifully illustrates the power of reforestation and the importance of embracing nature's wisdom. From urban "tiny forests" to the dedication of individuals like Miriam Prochnow and Wigold Schaffer in Brazil, and the collaboration with Indigenous peoples like the Kogi, it's inspiring to see people working tirelessly to protect and restore our precious forests.

[@laselynluna4431]

We must plant tress now

[@someguy2135]

I agree, but more important than that would be to preserve current forests. What could each of us do to encourage that? Switch to a fully plant based diet! Animal agriculture, especially raising cows for meat, is a major cause of deforestation, habitat loss, and biodiversity loss. "While the wildfires raging in the Amazon rainforest may constitute an “international crisis,” they are hardly an accident. The vast majority of the fires have been set by loggers and ranchers to clear land for cattle. The practice is on the rise, encouraged by Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s populist pro-business president, who is backed by the country’s so-called “beef caucus.” While this may be business as usual for Brazil’s beef farmers, the rest of the world is looking on in horror. So, for those wondering how they could help save the rainforest, known as “the planet’s lungs” for producing about 20% of the world’s oxygen, the answer may be simple. Eat less meat."- CNN Another reason they burn the Amazon is to grow soy. "More than three-quarters (77%) of global soy is fed to livestock for meat and dairy production. Most of the rest is used for biofuels, industry or vegetable oils. Just 7% of soy is used directly for human food products such as tofu, soy milk, edamame beans, and tempeh." -Our World in Data Brazil is one of the world's top exporters of beef and soy.

[@snicker576]

@@someguy2135 Thanks to your little ludicrous "live in the pod and eat the bugs" type of comment, I am going out of my way this week to eat cheeseburgers for breakfast, lunch, amd dinner. Thanks for helping the meat industry bud

[@someguy2135]

@@snicker576 Eating bugs is not vegan, since bugs are a type of animal. Each of us votes with our purchases for what kind of world we want for every Earthling now living and those yet to be born. You say you plan to vote for more deforestation, needless kiling of innocent sentient individuals, more zoonotic diseses, epidemics and pandemics, more and worse antibiotic resistant pathogens, climate change and wasted resources like fresh water. Well, maybe instant karma is real, since you would also be increasing your chances of developing ischemic heart disease, type 2 diabtes, high blood pressure, obesity, and multiple types of cancer. The peer reviewed Adventist Studies also showed that Adventist males who don't eat meat live about 8 years longer than those Adventists who do.

[@greggardiner895]

who gives a crap toilet paper uses bamboo saving 90 % land

[@darinbauer8122]

More of these kinds of videos please! ❤

[@edgarzuluaga4896]

Great work! Much needed, Thank you!

[@neilifill4819]

Good mission. It’s a real game of patience.

[@TechnicalShivam-bh1hv]

DW Amazing Documentary❤❤❤

[@DanielDiazQuintero]

It's just the opposite of what the mayor of Madrid (Spain), José Luis Martínez-Almeida, is doing - removing trees to replace them with bricks and concrete.

[@mandaeandt1433]

Thank You for this video ! So interesting and clarifying ! Thank You to all the genius people who work on all these projects ! ❤❤❤

[@DWDocumentary]

Thanks for watching!

[@sugipulaboule9]

You need a coffee.

[@jeffheiner]

thank you for such a beautiful presentation about such a beautiful forest.

[@DWDocumentary]

Thanks for watching!

[@thepursuitofsheenanigans]

Taking care of the ocean is #1

[@eustaciogriego1912]

Release all the dams that have been billed across the world that would help.

[@user-el2zq3fz6s]

All respect to you guys ❤❤❤

[@antonenero]

Thank you ❤

[@Pou1gie1]

@21:50 There was a video I saw about the Menominee tribe (Wisconsin), which logs only specific trees that are dead or dying and then replants in a specific way to maximize growth and protect the forest. They harvest wood for industries in a sustainable way, like for Pro basketball courts for the NBA.

[@kellymartell1292]

More nature preservation and solutions! So that many communities and individuals can come together and help to inspire change in others. More information can help spread awareness!

[@FlameofDemocracy]

Urban canopy is one of the 100 key tenets to expand. Addressing climate distress is a team effort.

[@copyRtest1]

Its good that scientists are listening to the kogi but I have to be skeptical of their observations

[@thestevenjaywaymusic7775]

Good people. We need lots more like these.

[@sunnyroch]

DW is probably the best media channel with so many inspiring and positive stories. Thanks DW for sharing and to the amazing people involved in fighting climate change.

[@DWDocumentary]

Thanks a lot for watching and for your positive feedback. We appreciate you taking the time to comment and are glad you like our content!

[@squirtnugget5717]

Every tree counts! And other native or ecologically beneficial plant. Amazing video, very positive message.

[@samararivett2965]

This documentary proves that it is not hard once the trees and shrubs are established in a balanced planting, like the Tiny Forests. They pretty much take care of themselves for the most part.

[@stormense]

In Sweden, an enormous amount of forest has been cut down in recent years. One generation plants a forest, the next takes the forest out in the form of money. And then the problem with electricity cables down to the continent, which drives up the price of electricity in Sweden in the winter, people are freezing and want cheaper wood from the forest to warm themselves with.

[@karolinakuc4783]

Wasn't the forrest cut down to make place for mine sourcing precious metals?

[@karolinakuc4783]

Good initiative

[@user-qe1bf4eu9v]

Can you put the English subtitles as well

[@simpledragon]

The most critical instance is responsible governance of the energy sector guided by social contract rather than being a resource of despotism.

[@rscott2247]

Some say trees are the lungs of Mother Earth ! I thought that was awesome having that native tribe from Colombia tour and give their 2 cents on the health on the woods.

[@eustaciogriego1912]

Nature can’t be wonderful if we treated fair. I believe trees were the first life on this planet without them we would not exist. Life is precious for all species we are an evasive species . We need to practice birth control in a serious way.

[@turboedsloth2000]

This is exactly the technique that should be taken up around the world, as planting up forests with monoculture as an eco disaster waiting to happen not only to the soil but to all living things that wouldn't receive an eco system to sustain them!!

[@IMGreg..]

The logging industry clear cuts and moves on but if trees were treated like a crop or live stock we wouldn't have a clear cutting problem. In Canada some forests took 100 years to clear cut and no one thought to replant behind them as they moved up the road they had the government make so they could access more trees. That road and swath they clear cut could be used for a thousand years if they had bothered to replace what they took out and the new forest properly tended grows faster. They had the nerve to ask the province to make another hundred miles of road so the could keep clear cutting. Forestry farming should be mandated for logging industries, it's in their best financial interest to have permanent infrastructure everything local for life, like farmers. Cut it, replant it, grow it, mill it in one place and never have to move to a new location.

[@mayhem6678]

Trees need to be around any house. Trees should not be removed as they are so powerful. Trees 🎄🌳❤️🙏

[@stuffifollow]

Its important to plant trees... but the right kind of trees not just to create green stuff

[@Xanman2000]

How are they sourcing the terra preta? I feel like that can’t be sustainable 😭

[@brucetomecko3734]

Might something in the region of Gdańsk, Poland be possible? I see area after area being taken over by hotel, office, and apartment building here.

[@jakeryker546]

Take over Deserts 🌳

[@teyhoonboon5853]

If all cities in the world build urban mini forest, the earth can be safe from the climate disasters.

[@ADUAquascaping]

The trees' evapotranspiration can lower daytime temperatures by 2-3 degrees C, but that isn't really the point of mitigating the urban heat island effect. Heat island effects are measured at nighttime. This is because of thermal emissivity, specific heat capacity, heat sinks, and rural temperature comparisons. Evapotranspiration, which leads to evaporative cooling, can lower nighttime temperatures by 12 degrees C. And why didn't they mention reducing stormwater runoff pollution and increasing on-site detention of water, which leads to increased groundwater. We aren't really doing anything special. We're just mimicking and restoring nature.

[@hhwippedcream]

Interesting that drought tolerant plants, particularly cacti and others that function through CAM only transpire at night to avoid excessive loss during sweltering daytime highs. It would be interesting to investigate how daytime and night time transpiring plants effect overall micro climate and perhaps also how these processes manifest in the rhizosphere through physical, chemical and biological processes.

[@ADUAquascaping]

​@@hhwippedcreamGood ideas. We can't forget the soil! It seems cacti have high reflectance and don't conduct heat? instead of having a high [0.98] thermal emissivity, such as most C3 plants. This means that they wouldn't be classified with other plants when producing NDVI/SAVI calibrated images. Do you know the equation for measuring healthy succulents using remote sensing data?

[@namunamoktan9194]

In our country, Kiranti worship plants and crops as major festivals of their religion. 😊

[@asitakassapa4109]

Thank gods people are finally growing and cultivating those concrete hells they habit.

[@pargevkarapetyan2251]

Watching this video,makes me happy and creates some little hope for future of our beautiful planet 🌎 Thank you grate peoples caring and doing good things for our planet 👏👏👏

[@JenniferA886]

As soon as you plant a forest, someone will come along when it’s fully grown and chop it down… so what’s the point

[@mickskov3949]

As for the [Bark Beetle]: is, there a transmitting beacon that can be fitted to the beetle is, there a thermal tracking material that can be painted to Bark Beetles so that an observer can record the movements thus, if Beetle paths can be predicted: can, “Sticky Bug Paper Strips” be wrapped around tree, in places most likely for the Beetle to cross and become neutralized

[@Geografija5do12]

Nice video, some would say too little, too late, but I would say it does not work like this. People don't understand, including "scientists", that theese attempts are mockery of natural systems. A forest is a pinnacle of vegetation's succession. A system that includes not just trees of various species and age, but all other life forms in soil and above it. It also includes different layers of canopy, schrubs and vines, fungus etc. All working together; in relation to water cycles and climate types. Natural forests are DYNAMIC systems which have been accumulating fertility for centuries. You can't just plant some trees in a clear-cut field or a degraded, former monocrop toxic wasteland and expect a success, let alone expect to have a FUNCTION of a forest. Usually theese "forests" are evenly spaced rows of young trees of the same species, never pioneering species, planted into sterile and dry dirt, suspectible to all kinds of pests... Nature doesn't work like this, it works through the succession. This is why very few of these trees live long enough, they are dying because the functional support elements are missing. Not to mention broken water cycles...and lack of life diversity. Thinking only in terms of co2 concentration is going to be our downfall.

[@user-nb5sr7by6y]

Superb media.

[@atanacioluna292]

Water resources in the air are often massive in desert areas. Pluvicopia produces energy and water from this limitless resource, but can desert lands become forests? Pluvicopia proposes attestation and reforestation to control CO2 rapidly, but can deserts be forested even if we have unlimited water. How could solid be developed to support the forest. Where will essential minerals come from? This is one of the biggest questions the book, Pluvicopia does not support.

[@phil20_20]

We need to do everything. It's too late to be picky. It took two and a half centuries to get this climate catastrophe going and it's going to take all we can do to reverse it, and reverse it we must.

[@joygwin6673]

planted 40 trees in my backyard. tiny forest

[@sandspike190]

I hope politicians in America start showing up too!

[@blue_barracuda]

Funny part is they go out of their way to cut the little amount of trees we have in neighborhoods and don’t try and replant

[@robheusd]

Trees are very valuable in combatting topsoil erosion and desertification, cliate change causes more severe drought and more severe rainfall, so can help mitigate the consequences of climate change. However, most often direct human actions (like chopping trees) are an important part of the problem, changing that practices and planting more trees help solve that problem. To capture CO2, trees are less valuable, per m2 algae can capture 20x as much carbon as trees.

[@pargevkarapetyan2251]

Thank you grate peoples planting trees.I appreciate you doing such important things for our beautiful planet 👍👏

[@oliverhiestand7098]

More trees nearly anywhere is a good and pleasant development. But cities have another big problem sewage. Growing algae binds much more co2 and produces more O2 then trees. Making biofuels, biogas or fertilizer from algae.

[@tayloreverard2039]

Can someone explain to me the impact of "bringing in" topsoil? Ought we be careful not to just scrape 10x10 metres of healthy earth somewhere else to put it into a relatively unproductive tiny forest?

[@lcz4033]

No volume

[@sugipulaboule9]

Even better, you didn't miss anything.

[@SuperVlerik]

This is sweet, necessary, inspiring and timely. But can we talk about naming? "Tiny Forest" is an oxymoron. It's a woodlot, which has none of the dynamics of an actual forest. That requires scale.

[@symbioticape]

I've been planting these for years. Where's my documentary 😂

[@karolinakuc4783]

Oxytree is special plant that consumes particularily a lot of CO2

[@silviadumitrescu7509]

There is no answer in the documentary about the question in the title. So, can they stop the climate change? No. They are helping with that though and are very good for people in other ways

[@jaik9321]

Great to see these Green Warriors - without trees we are not here....time to do these things in a war footing to save earth.

[@saimandebbarma]

Nope not entirely ! Means with only tress or planting tree's won't help. We need to make a holistic approach, addressing all of the interconnected challenges we are facing, such as climate change, poverty, inequality, and injustice etc etc . There are lots we need to do, basically we need balance in everything we do & create in & out, then maybe we could bring real change in everything. We have to remember that we need to learn from our past mistakes change our ways of thinking and living & understand in a true sense although, it will take some time you know, otherwise no chance. We need to move away from our consumerist and materialistic culture and towards a more sustainable and values-driven way of life ! It's possible, but as I said it will take some time why coz we need to feel & sense it from within without any distractions whatsoever also we all need to act as one family, together coz believe it or not we are all responsible for it direct or indirect & yet again in a same way now we want to be responsible for a good cause coz we are a solution not problem let's keep that in mind ! Lastly, I would say if we can destroy together then why can't we reconstruct/ restore together is it not, for ourselves for humanity. So well let's work together for truth, we can create a better future for ourselves and for generations to come ! Just reduce all your negetives footprints, analyse & investigate in depth & then eliminate it one by one. Hope our future is bright on the other side ! Thankyou' God bless you all ☝️🤍🙏

[@someguy2135]

To avoid climate change, it is more important to preserve forests than to grow new trees. What could each of us do to encourage that? Switch to a fully plant based diet! Animal agriculture, especially raising cows for meat, is a major cause of deforestation, habitat loss, and biodiversity loss. "While the wildfires raging in the Amazon rainforest may constitute an “international crisis,” they are hardly an accident. The vast majority of the fires have been set by loggers and ranchers to clear land for cattle. The practice is on the rise, encouraged by Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s populist pro-business president, who is backed by the country’s so-called “beef caucus.” While this may be business as usual for Brazil’s beef farmers, the rest of the world is looking on in horror. So, for those wondering how they could help save the rainforest, known as “the planet’s lungs” for producing about 20% of the world’s oxygen, the answer may be simple. Eat less meat."- CNN Another reason they burn the Amazon is to grow soy. "More than three-quarters (77%) of global soy is fed to livestock for meat and dairy production. Most of the rest is used for biofuels, industry or vegetable oils. Just 7% of soy is used directly for human food products such as tofu, soy milk, edamame beans, and tempeh." -Our World in Data Brazil is one of the world's top exporters of beef and soy.

[@someguy2135]

"The worldwide phase out of animal agriculture, combined with a global switch to a plant-based diet, would effectively halt the increase of atmospheric greenhouse gases for 30 years and give humanity more time to end its reliance on fossil fuels, according to a new study by scientists from Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley."-Science Daily Title- "Replacing animal agriculture and shifting to a plant-based diet could drastically curb greenhouse gas emissions, according to new model Date: February 1, 2022 Source: Stanford University Summary: Phasing out animal agriculture represents 'our best and most immediate chance to reverse the trajectory of climate change,' according to a new model developed by scientists."

[@someguy2135]

Greta Thunberg has spoken out about our consumer society, which is terrible for our environment. So is animal agriculture. No surprise that she is vegan. Going vegan is the single most effective way for each of us to minimize our environmental footprint. "According to the most comprehensive analysis of farming’s impact on the planet, plant-based food is most effective at combatting climate change. Oxford University researcher Joseph Poore, who led the study, said adopting a vegan diet is “the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth.” “A vegan diet is probably the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth, not just greenhouse gases, but global acidification, eutrophication, land use and water use. It is far bigger than cutting down on your flights or buying an electric car,” he explained, which would only reduce greenhouse gas. Avoiding consumption of animal products delivers far better environmental benefits than trying to purchase sustainable meat and dairy,” he added.” -"The Independent" interview of Joseph Poore, Environmental Science Researcher, University of Oxford. Joseph Poore switched to a plant based diet after seeing the results of the study. Links at my channel under "About.

[@saimandebbarma]

@@someguy2135 We can do anything here but, it all about balance by dear also one must know & understand where that balance is & what it looks like ! In all of the three messages that you posted are directed towards goin' vegan i see it, you are being brain washed so be careful next time. See anything in moderation is good & anything in excess is bad ! What you eat is not the problem, how you are eating is the problem ! Hope you understood what I mean & if you don't understand you will slowly !☝️ Thankyou God bless you dear' 🤍🙏

[@someguy2135]

@@saimandebbarma You-"... anything in moderation is good & anything in excess is bad !" It is true that the dose makes the poison, but although a small enough amount of animal products won't kill you, the advantages of advancing the vegan movement by becoming vegan and recommending it to others are significant.

[@HShango]

Groot 🌱

[@monicagere5775]

❤

[@patestrella7131]

For sure…

[@space-time-somdeep]

💚

[@aleksanderkuncwicz7277]

Farms can probably cool the land to farms because of the moisture,and bricks are just made of mud people could save trees if they use bricks and have longer lasting homes and apartments.

[@someguy2135]

More important than growing new trees is preserving forests. What could each of us do to encourage that? Switch to a fully plant based diet! Animal agriculture, especially raising cows for meat, is a major cause of deforestation, habitat loss, and biodiversity loss. "While the wildfires raging in the Amazon rainforest may constitute an “international crisis,” they are hardly an accident. The vast majority of the fires have been set by loggers and ranchers to clear land for cattle. The practice is on the rise, encouraged by Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s populist pro-business president, who is backed by the country’s so-called “beef caucus.” While this may be business as usual for Brazil’s beef farmers, the rest of the world is looking on in horror. So, for those wondering how they could help save the rainforest, known as “the planet’s lungs” for producing about 20% of the world’s oxygen, the answer may be simple. Eat less meat."- CNN Another reason they burn the Amazon is to grow soy. "More than three-quarters (77%) of global soy is fed to livestock for meat and dairy production. Most of the rest is used for biofuels, industry or vegetable oils. Just 7% of soy is used directly for human food products such as tofu, soy milk, edamame beans, and tempeh." -Our World in Data Brazil is one of the world's top exporters of beef and soy.

[@1112viggo]

"Can trees stop climate change?" Why this single minded approach? We keep searching for this one miracle solution to climate change. Seems unlikely that a climate system so complex we are not even close to fully understanding it would respond as we hope to these simple Forest Gump solutions. That being said, there are sound scientific reasoning behind restoring not only forests, but wetlands, swamps and marshes as well. It could certainly be an effective part of a broader climate strategy. But planting trees on its own is practically meaningless, we have already been doing it for decades.

[@sockhal4595]

That’s what " mossy earth" is doing. It’s a foundation showing their wild restoration work on KZbin.

[@RoxanneM-]

I watched this documentary completely and I don’t see they are saying it is the only solution.

[@1112viggo]

@@RoxanneM- No but the title and focus on trees and associated foliage kind of implies it don´t you think?

[@huluqi3972]

"Can trees stop climate change?" this title is to attract normal video viewers to watch this video, since the current disaster is the the result of simple minded actions, so they come in/start with simple minded, the simple minded viewers will have a big chance of leaving with complicated minded, then that's a step closer of saving the planet Trees are the start, without trees, river/swamps/wetlands disappear The video said, trees bring water Swamps are created along the trees, it devours dead things, including dead trees to make them transfer faster, cause of the more water it contains than normal lands, and fast bio reactions need more water to a certain amount like the swamp, and the water that swamp need , there need trees to bring water to form rivers then there goes water into the swamp

[@huluqi3972]

in other words, if the title is too compicated, they simply won't click to watch the video, then the planet is doomed for humans

[@islarun4103]

Presence of tree jist mean living soil

[@Kiranchand-hr8bq]

I wanted to work like them and take career like this,but how can I.I am an 23years old guy

[@andrewreynolds912]

Hey DW documentary Greenery is very important, modernism architecture, is actually a horrible architecture has prevent little to no greenery in cities and it actually impacts us the grey dull, simple, glass, and etc horrible non beautiful buildings dont have built traditional beauty in the architecture have a massive impact on us actually has caused nothing but worsening mental health and such people are starting to wake up to the fake were tired of old horrible boring and souless looking buildings. I love for u guys to make something on that topic!

[@RoxanneM-]

The modern architecture in Europe has been integrating green spaces and using better materials for some time now. It’s the US that needs to “modernize” to a more sustainable future.

[@andrewreynolds912]

@@RoxanneM- but my country the united states doesn't care and my government is being so da'm slow! Not to mention this country I don't believe in anymore

[@andrewreynolds912]

@@RoxanneM- also I'm aware Europe is trying to become greener stuff like solar punk is the future

[@otakotakbangjim5884]

I love planting big tree in public space . Mahoni tree jati tree MANGO tree monkey pod tree i live jn Cirebon Java Indonesia i plant around 2800 trees on this 5years . I wanted plant more about 50.000 .. the most dificult plant tree is on 2 first year when tree Juvenile i know exactly where i plant them all

[@Cha4k]

I thought we were already beyond the point of no return.

[@aaa855]

18:45 - 25.000 euro for plants to fit that micro tiny piece of area. That is crazy. All that equipment, tech, machinery and using energy to blending special soil. This forest emmit more Co2 from being created there than not was there. In few year, by that way, these trees will be to big to be there anyway and has to be removed. This is crazy. I planted my 10.000m2 forest on a field last year with 2400 trees, oak, ash, beech and birch for less than 3000Euro. My field is old farmland. trees will grow in the most poor soil and dont need special soil as forexample kitchen garden.

[@maxiculture]

Planting trees in cities is insufficient. Allowing forests and woodlands to regrow is what is needed. It can reverse climate warming. It has done it before.

[@blazed99]

No but hemp can..💯..it would fix it all .,...look it up..🙏

[@edgarmorales4476]

This is how to slow down climate change: 1) Switch from fossil fuels to clean energy 2) Stop or drastically reduce deforestation and plant more trees 3) Stop overfishing

[@agustinussiahaan6669]

In Indonesia, I criticized planting trees in the town's pedestrians and the government's building vicinity. Why? Those trees just to convince the passer that we have a green country. But actually they have destroyed our forest by burning it and converting it into palm trees.

[@betterpoliticsquetu]

what about wildfires

[@reginaerekson9139]

Watching this video I see people socializing by sub-culture. For example, German hippies, look like California Hippies etc. A reason why East WestNorth and South can’t get on the same page is because we can’t tel what the sub cultures are in every country because they already have older established culture by geography/religion. The West isn’t really anyone, it’s everyone who can afford it. The East has subculture- personal choice. I kissed a Japanese Hippie when he visited Hollywood, CA! The South has subculture- look how American music got around and it has undermined Middle East culture but fortunately people from all over the world went to college in The West….. just human beings in the end. What’s the purpose of living again?

[@purpleprincess5995]

💜👍

[@user-mu3iy8fq3d]

Innovative solutions, such as bioenergy and green hydrogen, show promise in decarbonizing sectors that pose challenges to electrification with traditional renewable energy sources, heralding a transformative shift toward more sustainable energy practices.

[@danwatson171]

Trees could have stopped climate change if we planted them about 40 years ago. Now even the greatest planting effort won’t prevent climate collapse. People need to face the fact that extinction is unavoidable at this point and stop giving the public false hope.

[@charlessimbolon7333]

There is no one silver bullet solution.we needs renewable and sustainable energy and green house gases emissions removal aka negative emissions technologies.

[@sugipulaboule9]

We don't need nothing, wake up.