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Why do Jane Goodall or Marc Benioff think that the world needs a #TrillionTrees? It's a weird story about made up figures, an inspiring German, a flawed study, and a media frenzy. It all begins in 2013, with a boy’s speech in the UN assembly hall (1/15)
The boy in the video is Felix Finkbeiner. His accent is Bavarian. In his speech he proposes a "very simple 3 point plan" to save the future: Eliminate emissions, end poverty through climate justice, and plant trees. A trillion in ten years, he says (2/15)
At the time this #TrillionTree figure hardly had substance. There are different stories where it came from. The boy's father, Fritjhof Finkbeiner of the German @ClubOfRome, would later say to @sternde that they made it up on the plane to New York. Anyway, it stuck (3/15)
