ConatusPrinciple (he/him)Jul 26, 2023
Evan Prodromou

One big difference between the world today and the world of tomorrow will be trees.

We will have a lot more trees in cities.

We will have trees in fields where crops grow.

We will have trees in pasture where animals graze.

Trees protect us from the hot sun and trap moisture for other growing things. And they sequester carbon.

Sun blazing down on asphalt won't seem acceptable as temperature goes up. We'll need trees to provide shade and keep cities liveable.

#ClimateChange

Jul 26, 2023 at 3:39amWeb
Show threadkorin ๐Ÿ”œ kodiJul 26, 2023

@evan trees also make places a hell of a lot more pleasant looking, because they're a hot ugly asphalt & concrete wasteland otherwise. the importance of trees cannot be understated

ditching lawns is also another important step. it's ecologically a disaster with toxic runoff and carbon emissions are made from equipment to manicure them

Show threadFionaJul 26, 2023
@evan Trees are our friends. Our (insert rude word here) rich af neighbours who think lighting up the garden at night until the wee hours so aliens can land there keep wanting to chop down the oak that stand directly on our gardens border. I have vetoed this. I love this oak. This oak which gives shade, blocks their lights from us, sheds it's leaves all over their, within an inch of its life, manicured lawn and produces a forest worth of saplings is the hill I will die on here. The Oak stays.
Show threadJProl ๐ŸŒ๐ŸŽถ๐Ÿ’พ๐Ÿ†“๐ŸฆJul 26, 2023
@evan wishful thinking, the real world seems to go in a different way
Show threadMonikaJul 29, 2023
@JProl @evan the "real" world? Surely you mean "artificial" world.
Reality check: humans are animals and we really need natural world to survive and thrive.
Show threadAlmadJul 26, 2023
@evan โ€ฆif they survive
Show threadCharles RoperJul 26, 2023

@evan

London Tree Map:

https://www.london.gov.uk/programmes-and-strategies/environment-and-climate-change/parks-green-spaces-and-biodiversity/trees-and-woodlands/london-tree-map

Eight million trees in London. A wonderful dataset thanks to the London i-Tree Project.

https://www.treeconomics.co.uk/projects/london-i-tree-project/

London tree map

This map shows tree data from the London boroughs and Transport for London.

London City Hall
Show threadCharles RoperJul 26, 2023

@evan As for trees where crops grow, the trees in and around fields of the High Weald in south east England where I grew up are like an arterial network.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.9326776,0.4769475,6796m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en&entry=ttu

My dad wrote a book about this landscape. https://web.archive.org/web/20230219223039/https://highweald.org/about-the-high-weald-unit/news/2132-brede-high-woods-its-a-wild-story.html

It's a great read if you're interested in trees, forest, and our relationship with them.

Before you continue to Google Maps

Show threadEvan ProdromouJul 26, 2023
@charlesroper very cool! I will read it.
Show threadCharles RoperJul 26, 2023
@evan Give me a shout if you have trouble getting a copy. It might be hard to get hold of these days.
Show threadDave  ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆJul 26, 2023
@evan Another possible solution is to move out of cities. Accept remote work as the norm for most all jobs. Factory jobs are going away. Plenty of trees outside of the cities.
Show threadToot ฮฉncommon - SHUT ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ DOWNJul 26, 2023
@evan As it stands, Montreal, with its widespread pedestrian underground, seems one of the best positioned cities for living through the late Anthropocene.