Raisin8659@monyet.cc to Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago[US] Feds spread $1 billion for tree plantings among US cities to reduce extreme heat and benefit healthapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up1176arrow-down13cross-posted to: treehuggers@slrpnk.netnews@lemmy.world
arrow-up1173arrow-down1external-link[US] Feds spread $1 billion for tree plantings among US cities to reduce extreme heat and benefit healthapnews.comRaisin8659@monyet.cc to Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square16fedilinkcross-posted to: treehuggers@slrpnk.netnews@lemmy.world
minus-squareGardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30arrow-down1·1 year agoIn 2021, the QT gas stations around my city literally cut down every tree on the property so the transients wouldn’t have shade. I don’t know why I felt the need to mention this.
minus-squareconditional_soup@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·edit-21 year agoBecause this is the vibe in the US. Only non-solutions are allowed. Don’t get down or you will be kicked. No get up, only kick.
minus-squareUranium3006@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoBecause it shows how not solving one problem (high cost housing and the resulting homelessness) results in more problems (trees getting cut down to make it someone else’s problem)
In 2021, the QT gas stations around my city literally cut down every tree on the property so the transients wouldn’t have shade.
I don’t know why I felt the need to mention this.
Because this is the vibe in the US. Only non-solutions are allowed. Don’t get down or you will be kicked. No get up, only kick.
Because it shows how not solving one problem (high cost housing and the resulting homelessness) results in more problems (trees getting cut down to make it someone else’s problem)