Labour plan to plant 2 billion trees by 2040
 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50578207

They better start digging, this works out at 700 trees a second or something ridiculous :laugh:

Labour is pledging to plant two billion new trees in England by 2040 if it wins the general election.
The party is also promising 10 new national parks during its first term, as part of its "plan for nature".
The Tories want to plant 30 million trees a year, while the Lib Dems have pledged 60 million if they win power.
Friends of the Earth has hailed Labour's plan - which would mean more than 270,000 trees being planted a day - as the most ambitious of the three.

Do they ever stop?

Diane Abbott did the calculations

LOL...

New forests are a great idea, I'd like to see more small wooded areas and reserves. I say highlight all brownfield sites across the UK that were heavy industrial areas of contaminated land, and let nature take over.

The Queen's Commonwealth Canopy project, that started in 2015, is planting 20 million trees by 2020 across the Commonwealth. Two billion trees, though? They're going to have to plant them cartoon style... the way Gromit lays railroad track.

https://www.royal.uk/what-queens-commonwealth-canopy

Ethiopia planted 350m trees in one day.

I agree though, we're far better off laughing at people trying to find a solution while the candidate we support has no interest in climate change. Especially baffling for people with children.

I'm all for planting trees, but lets have a realistic target

*looks for evidence..



"About 350m trees have been planted in a single day in Ethiopia, according to a government minister."

:suspect:

Yes but you are talking about that being done every day for the next 20 years, is that even feasible?

"We need to get brexit done so we can unleash the power of the economy according to the prime minister"

i think Ethiopia are telling porkies

I have no idea. On the face of it it sounds ridiculous, but experts (not me) are saying we're on the precipice of catastrophe, so aiming for 2 billion and hitting 1.5 billion (as an example) seems like an ambitious target and something to aim for. You know full well whatever the target is we won't hit it, so go for the bigger number and see what happens.

I don't think mocking ambition when it comes to the climate is the right approach, but unfortunately climate change seems to have become weirdly political for some strange reason.

They probably been sold money trees expecting them to fund all this pish they have been promising.

it has been politicised by the far left and not so far left and that is one legacy they will live (or not) to regret

No one on the left is refusing to take it seriously or act on the evidence. Climate science denial is actually a right wing phenomenon that started in the US, and somehow has worked its way over here.

:joker::joker::joker:

why who is denying it here?

Boris was climate change daft as a mayor, he had a go a trump for pulling of the paris deal and once brexit is done he can address climate change from this small group of islands

That's a fair point.

:joker::joker::joker:

Diane messed up some maths once and yet people still beat her with a stick lol. How boring.

yes as that is her only failing...

and where is she??

Where is Jacob Rees Mogg? Couldn't get him off the bastard television when he was trying to be PM. Works both ways.

Great idea, more countries need to get on board with tree planting

2 billion does seem like a big target, but better to set the goal high so that the minimum achieved is higher