And that comes from eliminating the Car Model of urbanism. Cars and car infrastructure are a fundamental problem, and nothing is going to change that.
And stop trying to put lawns under trees, it's abhorrent.
Absolutely. The article suggests that tree planting in LA is impossible because it’s too built up. Complete nonsense. If we took even a small fraction of the car infrastructure and turned it to planting space, LA could have ample tree cover.
Calling shade "like AC for the outdoors" gives off a "child trying to swipe a book to get to the next page" vibe
Why don't we just roll down the car window of the outdoors. Checkmate climate scientists.
You're saying trees fight global warming?
Shade has a meaningful local impact.
On a broader scale, conversion of agricultural land back into natural ecosystems can be a piece of what we need to do, but it's nowhere near the whole thing.
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.