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New Zealand currently has a programme to plant one billion trees in the next 10 years, about 250 trees per person, so this doesn't seem at all unreasonable. ht

• mikedilger 7y ago
  Yes, laudable in theory, but the current government hasn't delivered anything close. They should be at 184 million by now. They claim they are at 110 million. They estimate based on how many seedlings have been sold by nurseries, include seedlings "tranferred", which is a pretty sure way to overestimate. You'd think they would only count trees that the government was involved in planting, not trees that would have been planted anyways, but they take credit for everything anybody does. They do have a programme to pay land owners for planting trees, but in minumum one-hectare units, and it's financially a loss. I own and live on farmland in NZ. I could turn a hectare into fully native bush and get their maximum one-time payout of $4,000. But the costs of native trees are expensive and the labour to fully plant up a hectare properly is not insubstantial. The $500 top-up payout for fencing doesn't cover the cost of fencing. Then I'd have to give up about $500 per year in farming income, permanently. It would feel good, but there is still a significant financial disincentive. The government isn't really in a position to increase payouts. Taxes are about as high as the economy can handle and the government has lots of other projects to fund. If this is going to happen, it's going to be on the backs of individuals acting out of their own good will.
• braindead_in 7y ago
  https://youtu.be/3VZSJKbzyMc https://youtu.be/3VZSJKbzyMc This guy built a whole forest.