Tree Planting: The Solution to the Climate Crisis, or Justification for Environmental Degradation?

Tree planting is often employed by corporations attempting to offset the environmental degradation they cause and governments as a solution to mitigate the impacts of climate change. However, large-scale reforestation operations can have harmful socio-economic impacts on local communities when they fail to take into account traditional uses of their selected sites of operation. Therefore, the effectiveness of planting new trees alone as a tool in combating the climate crisis should be called into question. 

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Dubai’s Artificial Islands : Cutting Edge Innovation or Ecological Disaster?

Dubai’s relationship to the environment is problematic as its avant-guardist ambitions clash with the persistence of a sustainable environment and, therefore, a sustainable future. Among other practices, the artificial islands off the coast of the city have grave environmental consequences, such as excessive use of natural resources, the slow decline of biodiversity, along with the extinction of wildlife and vegetation.

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