600 YouTubers Pledge To Plant 20 Million Trees Together To Fight Climate Change
As Mahatma Gandhi once said, “If you want to see the world change, you have to start with yourself.” And all the while, just as he must have had some small changes that would later catalyze some bigger change, some people just have to go big or go home. YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, more commonly known by his online alias, MrBeast, is certainly not one of the latter. After so many people all over social media urged him to celebrate getting 20 million subscribers on YouTube by planting a symbolic 20 million trees, he couldn’t say no and took up the challenge.
After hitting 20 million subs on YouTube, MrBeast was urged by people on various social media platforms to plant 20mln trees in celebration
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After getting spammed on Twitter, Reddit and all over the comment section on his YouTube videos, MrBeast decided it was time to step up and just roll with the incredible idea of celebrating hitting 20 million subscribers on his channel by planting 20 million trees.
With a handful of friends, he managed to plant 300 trees on the first day
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As it seems like a pretty difficult task for one person, he teamed up with 600 YouTubers with an impressive 650 million subscribers collectively. He felt the need to add that “we all realize 20 million trees won’t fix climate change. But at the end of the day 20 million more trees is better than 0! We want to take action because doing nothing is how we got here!”
He called out to his subscribers as well and managed to raise the number of planted trees up to 1,700 the next day
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He partnered up with great creative minds such as Rhett & Link, Marshmello, AsapScience, Jeffree Star, Simone Giertz, The Try Guys and Mark Rober. Some of them brought their own twists to the idea and went on to search for the most efficient ways to plant such a huge amount of trees.
After realizing he’d need much more than that to achieve his goal, MrBeast partnered up with Arbor Day Foundation
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Mark Rober, being the brilliant inventor and engineer that he is, tried planting trees using a massive drone and Linus from Linus Tech Tips completely stepped out of the box and built an actual tree-planting bazooka!
The foundation will plant a tree for every dollar donated
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But the YouTuber community wasn’t the only one that MrBeast turned to. He urged his fans and followers to join him on this beautiful mission to help climate change by planting trees. He also teamed up with Arbor Day Foundation who will plant a tree for every dollar donated. They state that most of the trees planted will be native to a variety of state and national forests managed by government agencies.
All the revenue from this post will go to Arbor Day Foundation, so every share helps spread the word and plant more trees!
You can watch MrBeast’s video here
He also had other YouTubers jump in to help him
And while most people on the Internet fell in love with the idea, some had opposing views as well
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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.
Yes, but the 1980s were an environmental desaster. In Europe, in the 80s our forests were dying due to polluted air and rain. Tchernobyl happened, our rivers were poisonous, the ozon layer was failing. And politics made some important changes which lead to these improvement. Nowadays, any potential change in laws, any hint of forbidding emissions etc is greeted with an outcry of anguish, becuase we could lose precious BUSINESS.
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Some of the negative Facebook replies are idiotic. 'Unless we change our habits blah' at least someone is doing SOMETHING to help.
yaahh 601 people planting 33227.87 EACH.... If they All planted 2731 trees a month for a year than it would be doable
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Meanwhile 300 million trees in my small country alone (Germany) are dying because of the change in climate - the draught has made them suseptible to bugs and more more probe ot forest fires. It's a great thing to plant 20 million trees, it really is, especially for the local micro-climate, but globally it's a drop on a hot stone.
In Canada you can get paid for it. It's something like $0.25 per tree, but this has been a common summer job for university students for decades.
Better than protests and carbon taxes but about equally as effective against climate change. It's good to see that people are realizing just how real this problem is and there is certainly no harm done planting trees but it's too little too late. Our entire lifestyle has to change because it is simply unsustainable. THAT is the inconvenient truth we still can't face. If we shut down all oil production worldwide today it would be too late to save our civilization as we know it because of the global-warming already baked-in and we aren't even doing that. Governments know this and that's why they are doing nothing because there is nothing that can be done. If we had started 30 years ago when climate scientists started warning governments of what was coming we would have time to transition onto green energy and the trees planted would be sucking up CO2 today. But that would have required the world's governments and the corporations that own them to work together, so no.
Planting trees is amazing for the environment and it's amazing to see so many people and companies getting involved in this project. But the thing that a lot of people are forgetting is that tree can get diseases and die just humans can - so I hope they plant these in areas they can thrive and can be properly taken care of.
I'm happy these guys are doing this because obviously it's a good thing, but I really, really, really with we'd take our focus away from climate change and put it where it's more urgently needed. Save the bees, clean up the waterways, reduce packaging, and stop habitat loss in sensitive areas. Those are tangible and desperately needed more than planting trees. As Pored Banda says, the earth actually has MORE trees now due to climate change. More trees are not a bad thing by any stretch, but we need to focus our efforts in other areas like Boyan Slat is.
I planted 400+ trees in one day by myself. Didn't know that I have to share it on social.
There's a difference between planting 400+ by yourself and another thing to bring awareness and raising money to save the planet...
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They DO know, that there's no meaning just simply planting some tree randomly, because the result could be a "tree desert", right? (i.e. different types of plants lives in symbiosis with each other which should be taken to consideration if you want to make a healthy forest - like what kind of trees and other plants, and how many of them should be planted in the same area, etc - if you just plant hundred of the same kind of tree next to each you will only got "forest" like for the next five year before the trees start dying. )
Am I the only one that read the part: " that most of the trees planted will be native to a variety of state and national forests managed by government agencies." It won't be just random trees.
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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.
Yes, but the 1980s were an environmental desaster. In Europe, in the 80s our forests were dying due to polluted air and rain. Tchernobyl happened, our rivers were poisonous, the ozon layer was failing. And politics made some important changes which lead to these improvement. Nowadays, any potential change in laws, any hint of forbidding emissions etc is greeted with an outcry of anguish, becuase we could lose precious BUSINESS.
Load More Replies... Some of the negative Facebook replies are idiotic. 'Unless we change our habits blah' at least someone is doing SOMETHING to help.
yaahh 601 people planting 33227.87 EACH.... If they All planted 2731 trees a month for a year than it would be doable
Load More Replies... Meanwhile 300 million trees in my small country alone (Germany) are dying because of the change in climate - the draught has made them suseptible to bugs and more more probe ot forest fires. It's a great thing to plant 20 million trees, it really is, especially for the local micro-climate, but globally it's a drop on a hot stone.
In Canada you can get paid for it. It's something like $0.25 per tree, but this has been a common summer job for university students for decades.
Better than protests and carbon taxes but about equally as effective against climate change. It's good to see that people are realizing just how real this problem is and there is certainly no harm done planting trees but it's too little too late. Our entire lifestyle has to change because it is simply unsustainable. THAT is the inconvenient truth we still can't face. If we shut down all oil production worldwide today it would be too late to save our civilization as we know it because of the global-warming already baked-in and we aren't even doing that. Governments know this and that's why they are doing nothing because there is nothing that can be done. If we had started 30 years ago when climate scientists started warning governments of what was coming we would have time to transition onto green energy and the trees planted would be sucking up CO2 today. But that would have required the world's governments and the corporations that own them to work together, so no.
Planting trees is amazing for the environment and it's amazing to see so many people and companies getting involved in this project. But the thing that a lot of people are forgetting is that tree can get diseases and die just humans can - so I hope they plant these in areas they can thrive and can be properly taken care of.
I'm happy these guys are doing this because obviously it's a good thing, but I really, really, really with we'd take our focus away from climate change and put it where it's more urgently needed. Save the bees, clean up the waterways, reduce packaging, and stop habitat loss in sensitive areas. Those are tangible and desperately needed more than planting trees. As Pored Banda says, the earth actually has MORE trees now due to climate change. More trees are not a bad thing by any stretch, but we need to focus our efforts in other areas like Boyan Slat is.
I planted 400+ trees in one day by myself. Didn't know that I have to share it on social.
There's a difference between planting 400+ by yourself and another thing to bring awareness and raising money to save the planet...
Load More Replies... They DO know, that there's no meaning just simply planting some tree randomly, because the result could be a "tree desert", right? (i.e. different types of plants lives in symbiosis with each other which should be taken to consideration if you want to make a healthy forest - like what kind of trees and other plants, and how many of them should be planted in the same area, etc - if you just plant hundred of the same kind of tree next to each you will only got "forest" like for the next five year before the trees start dying. )
Am I the only one that read the part: " that most of the trees planted will be native to a variety of state and national forests managed by government agencies." It won't be just random trees.
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