Planting trees is good. They are being lost all over the globe faster than they are being replaced and quite a lot of the replacements will not live to maturity so we need MORE than were removed. But there is a time lag before they are doing their job fully of regulating air quality and Co2 content, so there is no instant measurable feedback and kudos to governments for planting them. Getting either praise or condemnation could influence them in either repeating the exercise or not bothering.
You can't balance it against the NHS as an either/or. If the cost were put into the NHS it would be like peeing in the ocean and expecting the tide to turn.
Have any of you got all electric cars? Pros and cons please.
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