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Many of these tree planting schemes are a bit dubious; can you really be sure that they are planting new trees that wouldn't have grown in that area anyway, and will they still be around in 40 years time to make sure the trees grow to maturity and are not cut down and burned? The only tree planting scheme that I really trust is the Green Belt Movement: http://www.greenbeltmovement.org/ started over 40 years ago by Professor Wangari Maathai.

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A lot of work is being done to make reforestation as transparent and sustainable as possible. In itself, it is no problem to record a world coordinate when planting the tree and later see if this tree is still there. The involved organizations are already working with such and similar solutions to avoid misuse. If you want to be 100% sure, you need to do it yourself: buy land, plant trees.

Maybe NFTs are the solution. I kid but.

This problem can clearly only be solved by AI.

Treecoin!

Yeah, but how do I know 9 other people didn't also pay for it?

How do I know it's not replaced by a new tree 30 years from now.

And so on.

Through transparency. these are not difficult problems to solve at all. Unless you are the type of person who doesn’t have a bank account because “the company might run away with my money, and how can I trust them?!” then you have to accept that a company doing this can easily provide verifiable documentation, go through independent audits and carry out the operation which is extremely simple in comparison to financial institutions.

You can also plant trees by yourself. Last year I planted 10 Siberian and Korean pines in one day. 7 trees survived, 3 trees died because I over watered them. So those 7 trees don't actually need any extra care from me.

Are those trees native (local on your area)? Also just curious, why not planting fruit trees? That's what I'd do right away if I had land

Fruit trees make a mess. The fruits fall if you don't pick it. Rotting fruit smells and attracts insects such as wasps.

The point is to eat those Mother Earth treasures: soft-persimmons, figs, clementines-mandarines, peaches, medlars, all those things are just so delicious and nutritive

What you said is exactly what some people around say when they cut those trees, makes me extremely sad

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