GREEN: Los Angeles, Known For Freeways, To Plant A Ton- 90,000- TREES With 1st Forest Officer

[appalachiablue]

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016240422

~ WHERE WILL LA GET THE WATER FOR THIS-- ANYONE???

DU wants to know...

[RockRaven]

1. Owens Valley, Colorado River, Northern California... not Los Angeles, that's for sure...

And let's be sober about these 90 thousand trees. Los Angeles is an enormous city. Not by population alone, but more relevantly by geography. According to Wikipedia, LA is 468.67 square miles, which by my calculation is 299,949 acres. So 90 thousand trees over 300 thousands acres.

One new tree for every 3-4 acres.

That is situation better than *nothing*, and I'm ALL FOR urban trees and trying to combat urban heat islands and over-concretization/asphaltization... but let's not over-sell this plan as really changing the game.

[IndyOp]

2. When I saw Garcetti's plan initially I was thinking in the same way

LA has been portrayed as a sort of Garden of Eden location in its past - filled with fruit trees, live oaks, etc. I was thinking that, if the city is serious, they should give incentives to private property owners who plant and maintain trees. Also, put a public swimming pool in every 8-square blocks of residential area and make filling privately owned pools illegal. I go to far... but we’ve let the climate crisis go way, way too far.