After A New Law, Students In Philippines Need To Plant 10 Trees To Graduate And It’ll Result In 525 Million New Trees In One Generation
It seems like our younger generations are the ones that worry the most about the future of our planet. When you think about it, it makes a lot of sense since they are the ones that will have to experience the tragic effects of your consumeristic and oblivious behavior. So, since there is a desperate need for a huge change, initiatives across the world are trying to incorporate younger generations to help save the planet. Even though they are not the ones that ruined it, it’s pretty obvious that they will be the ones to save it.
More info: House Bill No. 1154
On May 15, the Philippine Congress passed a law that requires students to plant 10 trees if they wish to graduate school
This bill states that this requirement applies to all students in order to graduate primary school, high school, and college.
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The bill was introduced by Congressman Gary Alejano
According to him, his main goal is to promote inter-generational responsibility as well as environmental protection.
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“While we recognise the right of the youth to a balanced and healthy ecology… there is no reason why they cannot be made to contribute in order to ensure that this will be an actual reality,” Gary Alejano commented on the bill.
This initiative will help plant 175 million trees
According to Alejano, even if only 10% of all the planted trees survive, this would still result in 525 million trees in the course of one generation.
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In fact, this isn’t the only positive initiative that involves the younger generation
One school in India made its students pay their “school fees” by collecting, bringing to school, and recycling plastic waste that was lying across the town. This type of initiative helped raise awareness about plastic waste in Asian countries. It also allowed more students to seek education and even helped the students to earn some money by recycling the plastic so they wouldn’t have to resort to child labor in order to survive.
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Scientists at the University of Maryland analysed satellite pictures showing how the use of land on Planet Earth has altered over a 35-year period. The study, published in Nature journal, is the largest of its kind ever conducted. The research suggests an area covering 2.24 million square kilometers - roughly the combined land surface of Texas and Alaska, two sizeable US states - has been added to global tree cover since 1982. This equates to 7% of the Earth’s surface covered by new trees.
I hope that such initiatives will be embedded into sustainable development plans. Planting trees is an important step, but only the first one. Creating sustainable habitats is the second. And even better would be to stop the massive deforrestation going on.
I don’t know why people are downvoting everyone who supports this effort at conservation. I’ll keep on being annoying and upvote all my environmentalist friends until the trolls leave.
Load More Replies... This is really beautiful and is helping to teach young people about the importance of the environment. While the Internet is an amazing thing that can bring people from different countries together and put info at our fingertips, I kind of feel like more and more of us are missing that connection with nature. Hopefully, this will help foster a love for the great outdoors in more kids.
This is actually amazing. It doesn't hurt you at all to "have" to do this. It helps the environment..and its fun!
well, college student cant do this sadly, including me, because of k-12 educational setback which puts ALL current college students back to a year before or worst, senior high school, plus there was a new curriculum being applied to all universities. Take it from me, I cried because i was supposed to be on my 3rd year of college and going to be an intern BS Psychology but the university told me that its just the law so all my hard earned money working full time to pay tuition just vanished, it looked like i only donated money to the school. Sad but Im over crying over it.
Nice. Healthy and productive way to spend one's time compared to so many of the other things we do. 10 trees per person is not a very high goal, when there are about 400 trees per person around the world, and probably thousands per person in Philippines. But Philippines is undergoing rapid deforestation, so, indeed, this is a good initiative. www.nationmaster.com/country-info/profiles/Philippines/Environment/Forest-area
This sounds nice, but why put the responsibility on the students first and not the companies responsible for the deforestation?
Will these trees be protected from any paper companies that will try to cut them down?
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Freaking fantastic!!! (I hope a bit of thought has to be put in by the "plantees"! Random trees in random places could be super interesting ;) )
Wow, this is really cool. More countries should join in doing things such as this. For so many reasons; the trees it will create that will help filter our air and and heal deforestation, to teach students responsibility and environmental awareness. I believe it would also help teach students to respect the world around them. I've known far too many people who just don't care, and litter wherever they please.
Not really. It is a practical application about environmental science they learned in school. How is a small step for a positive outcome stupid?
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Scientists at the University of Maryland analysed satellite pictures showing how the use of land on Planet Earth has altered over a 35-year period. The study, published in Nature journal, is the largest of its kind ever conducted. The research suggests an area covering 2.24 million square kilometers - roughly the combined land surface of Texas and Alaska, two sizeable US states - has been added to global tree cover since 1982. This equates to 7% of the Earth’s surface covered by new trees.
I hope that such initiatives will be embedded into sustainable development plans. Planting trees is an important step, but only the first one. Creating sustainable habitats is the second. And even better would be to stop the massive deforrestation going on.
I don’t know why people are downvoting everyone who supports this effort at conservation. I’ll keep on being annoying and upvote all my environmentalist friends until the trolls leave.
Load More Replies... This is really beautiful and is helping to teach young people about the importance of the environment. While the Internet is an amazing thing that can bring people from different countries together and put info at our fingertips, I kind of feel like more and more of us are missing that connection with nature. Hopefully, this will help foster a love for the great outdoors in more kids.
This is actually amazing. It doesn't hurt you at all to "have" to do this. It helps the environment..and its fun!
well, college student cant do this sadly, including me, because of k-12 educational setback which puts ALL current college students back to a year before or worst, senior high school, plus there was a new curriculum being applied to all universities. Take it from me, I cried because i was supposed to be on my 3rd year of college and going to be an intern BS Psychology but the university told me that its just the law so all my hard earned money working full time to pay tuition just vanished, it looked like i only donated money to the school. Sad but Im over crying over it.
Nice. Healthy and productive way to spend one's time compared to so many of the other things we do. 10 trees per person is not a very high goal, when there are about 400 trees per person around the world, and probably thousands per person in Philippines. But Philippines is undergoing rapid deforestation, so, indeed, this is a good initiative. www.nationmaster.com/country-info/profiles/Philippines/Environment/Forest-area
This sounds nice, but why put the responsibility on the students first and not the companies responsible for the deforestation?
Will these trees be protected from any paper companies that will try to cut them down?
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Freaking fantastic!!! (I hope a bit of thought has to be put in by the "plantees"! Random trees in random places could be super interesting ;) )
Wow, this is really cool. More countries should join in doing things such as this. For so many reasons; the trees it will create that will help filter our air and and heal deforestation, to teach students responsibility and environmental awareness. I believe it would also help teach students to respect the world around them. I've known far too many people who just don't care, and litter wherever they please.
Not really. It is a practical application about environmental science they learned in school. How is a small step for a positive outcome stupid?
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