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Kids born today are going to grow up in a hellscape, grim climate study finds
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this post was submitted on 15 May 2025
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We planted trees as kids in the 80s. Didn't just plant them either. We kept going back every year to check on the trees. We made sure that 10 trees for every kid in our school made it to 5 years before we stopped replanting that tree. Over the years I must have planted at least 50-100 trees. I wish it felt like it did anything.
I did similar though we didn’t check them ourselves