Trees are critical urban infrastructure, reducing heat and pollution and saving lives. So we have to fix this: "Neighborhoods with a majority of people of color have 33% less tree coverage than communities that are majority white, and neighborhoods with residents with 90% or more living in poverty have 65% less tree coverage than communities with 10% or less of the population in poverty. " #TreeJustice #UrbanTrees #ClimateJustice #EnvironmentalJustice

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Planting new trees is too often offered as compensation for cutting down existing older trees. But, In comparison with newly-planted trees, many of which don't survive their first seasons, "large-diameter trees store disproportionally massive amounts of carbon" and provide much better habitat for biodiversity, resilience to drought and fire, and urban heat-reduction." https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/ffgc.2020.594274/full #Proforestation #TreeJustice