Today’s Solutions: March 28, 2024

In the fight against climate change, some of our best assets are ones that we’ve had the longest time and cost nothing. They are big, green, grand, and have been here longer than the country itself. They are trees, and they are “our planet’s lungs,” which is how US President Joe Biden put it when signed an executive order to bolster the protection of national old-growth forests. 

The world needs its forests to absorb and recycle as much atmospheric CO2 as possible. To that end, preserving the oldest forests in the world, such as those in the American Northwest, is of the utmost importance. President Biden’s order is a step in the right direction. 

Under this order, the first inventory of old-growth forests on federal lands would be created. It also calls for the growth of reforestation efforts and establishing partnerships to grow forests on private lands. Whether the plan will include fire prevention measures or other such precautions has yet to be disclosed. 

The president also announced a plan to plant 1.2 billion trees across the United States, which he said would “begin the vital work of reforesting in America.”

Climatologists and meteorologists say that climate change has caused the yearly wildfire season in the US to start earlier and to burn hotter. 

The US president went on to say that the planting and preserving of trees would not stop in nature. Cities and towns will be key spots for the planting of trees and the further development of urban green spaces. 

While there is still much more that could and needs to be done to combat climate change, this US policy of forest protection.

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