According to weather expert 2010 might become the warmest year on record, in spite of this cutting of trees are still rampant while planting are anemic. It is very seldom that you will hear a tree planting activities and it is uncommon to see a new trees growing unabated. There are few political figure and organization who do tree planting activities but their action is only limited to planting. They don't care anymore what happened to the tree after they were planted. Some of our politician doing it only to capture votes during election.
I wasn't blessed with big land and money, I am not influential and don't belong to any environmental group. But this sad reality encourages me not to limit my tree planting only in my small backyard. I know that I need to do some tree planting activity outside my limited space to at least offset those trees that were cut.
Prior to deciding to have my own tree planting activity, I already have some tree sapling planted in a used plastic bag. Every time I see a used plastic bag, I am having a hard time throwing it away because I know that if I do so, it will contribute to the already polluted environment. And since there is a lot a tree sapling growing in my backyard, I have decided to transfer the rest of them to these used plastic bags. And just dream that someday lady luck will smile on me and will give me a land to plant these trees. But it looks like my dream will not come to a reality sooner or might not happen at all. The trees are growing fast and need to be planted to a well suited environment, so I found it perfect to use these trees in my tree planting activity.
I have decided to do my first tree planting activity in the vacant lot between one of the streets and the fence of our subdivision. It has a width of only one meter but it is almost fifty meters long, enough to plant at least 10 trees. I discovered this vacant lot while jogging in our village. I found it well suited to plant trees because this will no longer be used by the residents of the village. And this will also favorable to those who love to jog because it will give them shade during sunny days.
I did not completely fill the idle lot with trees right now, I will first observe if the tree I have planted will be able to grow fully on that location and no one will delay or stop the growth of the tree I have planted. This is to avoid wasting my effort, time and energy. I'm always checking the progress of the tree every time I jog during weekends and so far it is going well. I hope it will continue and I know that this is not enough to cope up with the massive lost of trees all over the world but at least I am doing my small contribution and if each and everyone of us will do the same it is not impossible to happen.
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