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Not sure where to start this thread, but @Trevornoah
& @TheDailyShow have made a serious error of judgment in giving platform to a known charlatan. As others have pointed, we wish they'd spent more time researching this gentleman before having him on. 1/n
& @TheDailyShow have made a serious error of judgment in giving platform to a known charlatan. As others have pointed, we wish they'd spent more time researching this gentleman before having him on. 1/n
We've been thinking about this for long: "Scientists, corporations, mystics, and movie stars have convinced policymakers around the world that a massive campaign to plant trees should be an essential element of global climate policy." #TrillionTrees #Restoration 2/n
The quote above is from a Bioscience article that several of us, led by @ForrestFleisch1, wrote sometime back. "Pitfalls of Tree Planting Show Why We Need People-Centered Natural Climate Solutions" (Freely available pre-print: researchgate.net/publication/34…) 3/n academic.oup.com/bioscience/art…
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)
