Any project that plants trees is far, far more than just a "do-good" project with dreams of making a neighborhood or street look prettier. Planting trees is
absolutely crucial to the continuation of life as we know it on this planet.
You see, there are a lot more people on the planet every day; and we're killing trees to the point where we have just a small fraction of the trees we once had. The crucial point we often forget is that it takes roughly two mature trees to produce the amount of oxygen needed by one human being.
(This happens through "photosynthesis", where a tree takes carbon dioxide from the air and converts it into oxygen.)
Trees still vastly outnumber people so we're not in immediate danger of suffocating. But it could happen, theoretically, in the distant future. So
now is the time to plant all those little trees. In so doing, we can look toward the faraway future, when that tree
(or its descendants) puts a substantial amount of oxygen into our air.
By the way, in Texas,
now is by far the best time to plant trees (unlike up north)
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