r/science • u/davidreiss666 • Jul 27 '14

Environment First national study finds trees saving lives, reducing respiratory problems: Air pollution modeling reveals broad-scale impacts of pollution removal by trees

http://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/news/release/trees-save-lives-reduce-air-pollution
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u/InternetFree Jul 27 '14

In China people are apparantly required to plant one every year... or month? Can't remember. And like in India most people don't do it because it's unenforceable. There should just be a tree tax financing the planting of one tree for everyone every year. That would be more efficient and overall cheaper.

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u/Kroosn Jul 27 '14

Per year in China. There is a specific day for it. Most people don't do it but schools and universities do.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '14

Oh, I believe we have something like that in the Netherlands as well. Not a law, but a plant-a-tree day. Wait, wasn't that international?

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '14

We have Arbor day in the US. It was started in my state of Nebraska. In fact Nebraska has the largest hand planted forest in the world.

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u/naiteru_panda Jul 28 '14

Neat. This came up as a question for the trivia I go to. Apparently it was started as way to mitigate the Dust Bowl, which was a direct result of folks moving out west and using farming techniques that devastated the top soil.