{"id":8785,"date":"2020-03-25T09:25:37","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T06:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=8785"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:56","slug":"planting-trees-will-not-solve-the-climate-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/03\/25\/planting-trees-will-not-solve-the-climate-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Planting Trees Will Not Solve The Climate Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">South African scientists say African governments have been misled into massive tree planting schemes by the Global North misreading Africa\u2019s grasslands. Megafires and drought beckon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trees are good. Trees are green. Trees suck up carbon dioxide. Ergo: plant as many trees as possible and you solve the world\u2019s environmental and climate change challenges almost overnight. Right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not at all, say a growing number of bewildered African ecologists. They worry that Global North-led mass tree planting projects will do very little to contain ballooning emissions of carbon dioxide and other climate-warming gases \u2013 and are more likely to ignite conflict over land tenure, food security, conservation and dwindling water resources for generations to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African scientists say African governments have been misled into massive tree planting schemes by the Global North misreading Africa\u2019s grasslands. Megafires and drought beckon. Trees are good. Trees are&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}