Comments by "Gaza is not Amalek" (@Ass_of_Amalek) on "India: Trees as family members | Global Ideas" video.

  1. given how indians have long treated "mother ganga", I wouldn't get my hopes up that high... what makes sense about preserving city trees is mostly that they help against summer heat. they provide shade and also evaporative cooling. if you enter a green area (a park or even just a garden area) in a city on a hot day, you can feel a big temperature drop. preserving older trees can be especially reasonable because they often have much deeper roots that make them drought-resistant, so if a place is getting drier like a lot of areas are due to climate change, it can be very difficult and expensive due to high water costs to care for younger trees or other smaller plants, while big trees may still survive without any care. so then basically if you cut down a tree, you won't be able to replace it. of course even under the right conditions, replacing a tree takes a long time, since what one would normally recognize as a big tree (10m+) is usually 50-200 years old.
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  2. this is awesome! I just watched a video like this I think out of pakistan about somebody planting trees in a city to counteract the urban heat island effect (dry and dark concrete and asphalt making cities much hotter than the surrounding areas). but that guy was planting new city parks, and that makes a lot less sense to me than planting trees at people's homes if they can be convinced to take care of them for personal gain. ideally, whereever the climate and water situation allow it, trees should be planted along roads of all sizes, and even throughout the poorest neighbourhoods where people suffer the most from heat because they can't afford AC or even fans. growing trees for shade is a benefit that's obviously easy to communicate, and the video from pakistan I saw also showed a guy wetting his forearms against the heat, demonstrating the awareness that people in these hot places have of evaporative cooling, which would eventually provide big benefit to a green neighbourhood. I live near a city park, and on hot days, it feels almost like entering an air-conditioned building when you enter the park.
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  3. I've heard of treehuggers, but not treepatters.
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