Related to last weeks post, Reparations Mean Benefits for All, Scientific American’s June 22, 2021 article explains how we can do more. The article, “Trees Are Missing in Low-Income Neighborhoods:More tree cover would lower disproportionately high levels of heat and pollution” explains how we can all benefit by planting trees in poor neighborhoods that do not have a good tree canopy cover.

Trees cool climates and also help with climate change. Planting trees in neighborhoods that do not have many trees would be another example of generating comprehensive benefits by creating pervasive, reciprocal, selfish, selfless, synergistic interactions so everyone and everything benefits.

As reported in Scientific American,

…communities of color have 33% less tree canopy on average than majority white communities, the analysis revealed. And neighborhoods with 90% or more of their residents living in poverty have 41% less tree canopy than communities with only 10% or less of the population in poverty. (Greenwire, Sept. 16, 2020).

Although the Nature Conservancy explains, To Protect Vulnerable Populations, Plant More TreesIn rapidly heating cities, climate change is an environmental justice challenge, it does so much more. It does not just protect them, it creates a better environment and enables them to do and be more while it also helps all.

As summer 2021 has demonstrated, heat waves have become more common. Trees are nature’s way to cool the planet. So simple, more tree planting helps the environment by trapping more carbon, provides more home for animals, cools the neighborhood, and therefore benefits everyone an everything. Please share plans that we can participate in to help plant trees.

Be Well’r,

Craig Becker

Be selfish, selfless, & synergistic so everyone and everything benefits!

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