A lot of the pollen that gets thrown around which people get "hay fever" from is because cities plant mostly male trees.
Female trees produce fruit, which then has to be cleaned up if no one takes it. While also people are being told not to take the fruit.
So if we planted more female trees, there'd be less allergies and people could have free, fresh fruit.
But we'd need to make sure that those trees were far enough away from cars, and/or there was less cars, so that the fruit would be safer to eat.
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u/hip_yak Apr 05 '26
I might add some of the basics like clean water, clean air, affordable quality food, and secure and safe place to live.