Planting trees to cope with global warming

Couples applying for marriage and spouses who need a birth certificate for their children must plant trees around the city. A city in Indonesia has issued the above regulation to improve the environment.

"Let's plant trees" - (Photo: UNEP)

The city of Balipapan in Northern Kalimantan (Indonesia) has set the above 'law'.

The marked deterioration of environmental conditions around the city of Balipapan in Northern Kalimantan has caused local authorities to set a "law" of their locality: young couples of men and women come to register marriage and couples needing a birth certificate for newborns must participate in improving the environment by planting trees around the city.

The city has lost its environmental landscape because mining in this area is expanding, causing the area of ​​greenery to decrease continuously. At the same time, the wood exploitation and processing industry also contributes to reducing the forest area in the whole region from 350,000 to 500,000 hectares each year, only replanting 70,000 hectares. Although Indonesia's forest area is still about 91 million hectares, it has lost 79% of the forest area in the last century.

The city government has foreseen the risk of environmental degradation to provide a measure of salvation within its scope.

Initiative to plant trees as a social obligation of the people, plus recent news in Macedonia, where every day thousands of people plant trees and have grown more than 6 million trees in a day are very good signs. happy

However, these are still very rare compared to an opposite trend, even happening in developed countries: engineers are busy building power plants, geothermal devices . They forget the forest is the real lungs of the earth and need protection.