Daniel MoserJul 24, 2023

🌡 Time for a reminder that adding shade & vegetation 🌳 to urban environments helps to reduce the urban heat island effect massively.

A super important tool to keep cities cool during the summer.👇

Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

BUT HAS TO BE RIGHT KIND OF TREES @dmoser don't do what New York City did during the Bloomberg administration.

Instead of re-introducing native species, the city only planted trees they thought would be easy to maintain and most of them are female.

so we now have pollen-related health advisories when everything is covered in a green dust that leaves many in the hospital with asthma attacks or even anaphylaxis.

it's infuriating.

LOSING BIODIVERSITY is at the root of the climate crisis

Jul 24, 2023 at 2:22pmWeb
Show threadDavid Mitchell Jul 25, 2023

@blogdiva @dmoser

A big component in the rise of allergies over the last half a century is attributable to the planting of tens of thousands of male trees in urban settings: preferred because they don’t produce fruit, so aren’t ‘messy’

Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Jul 25, 2023
@DavidM_yeg @dmoser oh, it's the males, not the females? thanks for the correction. it's horrible. my kids and i suffer from asthma and allergies and it's there have been years when we had to stay indoors.