Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Imagine if you could make a profit every time some green snowflake expresses a burst of irrational hatred towards President Trump.
One group of greens is trying to make that happen.
Here’s how to plant a tree every time Trump says something dumb about climate change
Imagine, for a second, that you had one of those stress balls that you could squish in your palm whenever Trump said something about the environment that really frustrated you.
Now imagine that a tree popped out whenever you used it.
Treespond, a campaign that allows users to sponsor the planting of a tree in response to Trump’s misleading commentary about climate change, launched earlier this week. Treepex, the nonprofit behind Treespond, hopes to harness your political frustration and turn it into carbon sequestering forests.
The idea for the campaign came when Bacho Khachidze, Treepex’s cofounder, noticed how frustrated people got about climate change deniers. “It’s normal to get angry when people with power spread false information about a problem that needs urgent attention, their words can do real damage,” he admitted, “But we wanted to provide people with something actionable they could do that wasn’t, like, screaming back.”
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Each tree costs $9.99 to plant and comes with a certificate with your tree’s ID number, a photograph of the tree, and its geographical location. The idea recalls the now clichéd Star Registry, that allows people to name a star in someone’s name. Though stars, of course, do not come with biodegradable tags.
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Though small in nature, the gesture of planting a tree holds symbolic weight: It can represent the voice of those listening to the Earth’s pain and working to heal it.
Read more: https://mashable.com/2018/07/29/trump-climate-change-treespond/
How do greens plan to survive the post renewable subsidy apocalypse without getting a real job? I guess we now have an answer.
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Actually I think this is a remarkably good idea. There is absolutely no doubt that the removal of trees by humanity has caused localised and yes probably global damage to habitats, species and atmospheric conditions. I do not attempt to quantify or qualify this statement but we all know it to be true. If this benevolent reaction to the words of President Trump actually occurs in real life then indeed the world will become a better place. They should be encouraged and congratulated on their positive response rather than being spurned for their lack of understanding and thought. I would love to know how many actually get planted…
Numerous groups help you plant a tree in Israel, complete with a certificate.
The Jewish National Fund has planted 250 million trees in Israel.
Will the greens help this already long established philanthropy?
Total crock of poo to fleece the virtue signalers of their money.
If that’s all it achieves, I’m all for it.
Never miss a chance to bilk people out of money and increase your own personal wealth. And they say environmentalism isn’t about money. Ha!
The funniest part about this is that we are nearly at a the point of net afforestation – caused in part by the wealth that flows from the application of cheap fossil fuel energy AND the greening of the planet from additional CO2 in the atmosphere.
Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery.
I see no problem with these enterprising businesspersons.
We should be copying their lead,for every dollar extracted from the faithful is a dollar less and some leisure time they will not have to engage in their pet idiocy.
We are to blame for Gang Green,if we had recognized their real nature we could have exploited their gullibility leaving them penniless and feeling real stupid.
Because they never got these life lessons,they have indulged themselves in near 3 decades of public stupidity, at huge cost to the rest of us.
Fleecing people of this nature is our civic duty.
Fools names and fools faces are always found in public places..
Just imagine how much richer our communities would have been, if we had overridden our parents ethics,ignored our lessons about robbing the unfortunate and if we had had the foresight to pre-empt this madness ..
However it is never too late to learn.
If that were to come to pass, I could hire Jeff Bezos as my house servant and Bill Gates as my chauffeur.
I hope they plant Oak trees, I like to burn them in my fireplace.
I thought for $ 9.99 they were going to send you a plant (young tree), or at least a seed to plant yourselves. What a rip-off…
Reminds me of the time Quaker Puffed Rice, (or Quaker Puffed Wheat) had a promotion, and I have a deed that I own one square inch of land somewhere in the Yukon…They never sent me the coordinates…it’s probably in the middle of some tree somewhere in the Yukon…this was back in the 1950’s.
What real estate taxes do pay/owe?
Do we really need any more trees?
NASA – Carbon Dioxide Fertilization Greening Earth, Study Finds
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fertilization-greening-earth
A long time ago, there was so many trees we needed 80+ ton dinosaurs to keep them eaten down.
Mmm, Brontosaurus ribs. Gotta love a modern stone age family.
Another business opportunity for GMO. Bring back dinosaurs, and then open a specialty restaurant. 🙂
Their money would be better spent on a steady dose of Xanax Rx.
Without subsidies, government grants, or corporate funding they would all dry up. The corporate media doesn’t focus on it anymore because it hurts their ratings, governments are in the process of eliminating grants and subsidies – or will be with populist governments being elected all theigh the West. So I don’t see much of a future for the greens.
It will take some years, but the more work exposing them done by websites like this will only hasten the process.
“the Earth’s pain”. Is that what it gets from volcanoes and earthquakes? Greenblob nutters after more money from the useful idiots.
They are just the zits, pimples and blackheads. The Earth is still young.
The trees will be ground into wood pellets and fed to the UK Drax power plant. And they will say: look how green and righteous we are.
And how utterly ignorant of the concept of energy density.
“ignorant of the concept of energy density”
Wondering how much bunker oil is used to transport a pellet load to Drax?
Every time I hear some crap on the BBC about climate change I fire up the chainsaw…
Rats, wish I had thought of this one! Most state forestry departments sell bundles of seedlings of different types of plantation pines really cheap, cents per stem. They probably use volunteers to do the planting too, so a lot of profit to be made.
Yep, checked the site, they are planting baby timber trees…wonder if they also own the land on which these trees are being planted as down the road there is another potential profit from harvesting them at maturity….
This is doubly ironic, given that carbon dioxide isn’t the actual cause of global warming.
Meh, it’s the though that counts.
This was not meant to be posted here but couldn’t delete it .
There’s nothing they can’t exploit.
Reminds me of the Save the Children ads
At least the children won’t be harvested in 10 years to turn into biofuel pellets.
Though small in nature, the gesture of planting a tree holds symbolic weight: It can represent the voice of those listening to the Earth’s pain and working to heal it.
Ahh that’s nice, mother earth will weep.
Just plant out a patch of trees. Photograph the trees. Digitally attach a number to each tree in the image. Sell the trees. Digitally over write the numbers with new numbers. Sell the same trees etc. Seems like a good earner to me. Wish I had thought of it first.