The state is allocating more funds to plant trees to protect kids from extreme heat.
a NASA science writer proposes that planting half a trillion trees could cancel out about 20 years of worldwide carbon emissions. Not bad at all. But planting trees, according to the article, should in no way be seen as a long-term substitute for reducing fossil fuel emissions.
It’s going to take all the new, planted trees time to provide the cooling shade and other benefits that are so needed at these schools, and there is still a lot of asphalt on the 112th Street campus. That may change through another effort. In the coming weeks L.A. Unified’s board is considering a policy to ensure that 30 percent of every campus is green space of one kind or another. For the last decade, the district has spent 5 million dollars a year on outdoor green space. This year, the district plans to spend ten times that amount on new greening projects.Fires. Mudslides. Heat waves.
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