LA is Planting 90.000 Trees To Battle Extreme Heat

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Heat already kills more people in Los Angeles, United States than hurricanes, tornadoes, and other extreme weather events, contributing to an estimated 12,000 deaths per year in the United States, according to research. A critical component of the solution? Trees.

Many major American cities, including Los Angeles, are working to close the major tree canopy coverage equity gap. In this video, we’ll take a look at how LA is planting 90.000 trees to battle extreme heat!

The need to address climate change is front and center at a time when countries around the world are experiencing record-high temperatures and heat waves. Compounding the heat island effect, cities around the world are experiencing thrice as many days of extreme heat as they did in 1980, resulting in an increase in heat-related illnesses.

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[Circle_of_the_Earth]

Do we need more greening the city projects in the USA? 🍀
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[RafaelMolina]

LA is actually deforesting the cities. I’m currently fighting for the life of 121 mature Aleppo pine trees in the city of Burbank. Look it up! We need everyone’s help!!!

[theresehopkins]

You cannot imagine how happy this news makes me!!! 💗💓💕💖💗 My parents were environmentalists in the 60's... before it was a thing!!! 💚❤💙💜💖💗💚 My parents would be so happy that the world has come around to appreciating 💗 trees!!!!

[Randomvideos-yrcc]

Houses can also make a wall of steel wires around their house and can plant climbers there. It will act like a green wall and provide shade.

[abotic]

The background music is too loud. It makes it difficult to focus on what's being said.

[Solar_Max]

Not all trees transpire equally. Some species do a lot more cooling than others. Doing some testing, I found that sycamore tree leaves are cooler than most other tree leaves on a hot summer day.

[b_uppy]

We need a three prong approach as outlined by Walter Jehne:
We need rainwater harvesting strategies in the Midwest and West, and other dry, and flood prone areas. This can be done everywhere, in cities, on hillsides, farms, ranches, parkland, parking lots, roadsides, suburban yards; etc are all opportunities.
Using bioswales, eddy basins, raingardens, curbcuts, etc to avoid having to use expensive piped and pumped wateris important. They need to create guidelines for making rainwater catchments because watering plants is expensive, as is likely any permitting requirements to do much rainwater harvesting. They need to de-complicate rainwater harvesting.
Brad Lancaster has fantastic books on rainwater harvesting.

Trees are important, but we must emphasize biome appropriateness and biodiversity while planting them.
Planting diverse, biome-appropriate taprooted-trees higher on hills prevents them from drying, also reducing slide danger, etc.

Promoting soil building practices is the third leg.
Emphasis on biome-appropriate, diverse plants while avoiding synthetic chemical inputs is key.
This would be further enhanced by restoration ag farming practices. This holistic method opts for mob-grazing, polycropping of biome-appropriate, of predominantly perennial, tree, shrubs, and vines (alley-cropping is effective); avoiding bare soil fallow, use of synthetic chemicals, monocropped annuals; overgrazing; CAFOS.
Mark Shepard employs and teaches this to repair soil, while growing healthier, abundant food, healthier livestock.
This needs teaching and demonstration to implement, and addresses huge portions of land. It's fascinating and well thought out. He is expanding to 5 other farms.

Also pushing for more rail instead of roads leaves more permeable surfaces, which supports more trees...

[malahammer]

Who'd have guessed is the saviour.

[sunandsage]

There's lots of palm trees there. I don't suppose they do a whole lot to cool things down do they? Just curious.

[Blaqjaqshellaq]

Another thing they can do is plant grasses and sedges on rooftops!

[stanarkissed]

Due to topography, the heat island of my city visably splits and diverts severe weather more often than not. I will watch the radar, anticipating a thrilling storm, only to watch it split apart and go around. Over and over, for years. Like a rock in the atmospheric current. Only the largest storms, like floods, can wash over.

[FalconWing]

Trees also help during storms by breaking up straight line winds and reducing the wind speed below the canopy. Its crazy how much benefits we get from trees like Oxygen! kinda need that. Yet we cut down trees in our neighbor hood because it makes the pretty green grass not grow that well. Man we need to get our priorities straight. lol

[hans]

Let’s hope they plant them in poor area’s also. This would help California somewhat

[arthurbrandonnielsen]

Doing more for the environment than any modern "Green New Deal" since the 80s and 90s with the Three Rs: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle.

[Badgerlust]

People need to plant trees themselves don't just depend on tree planting groups to do it

[sebastianwrites]

This is very good, and well presented!

[lewismcl]

Interesting video, could you link any of your sources. I am interested in reading more. Cheers

[starkflam]

👍🌳
I’m a bit sad of the little number of contents like this one, i.e. on the necessary greening of cities, also in the US. I live in Belgium. We must all consider this as a major topic. Greetings from Europe.

[hnee]

Insurance companies are already increasing the premium significantly simply because there is a tree close by to your home. My friends insurance premium almost doubled because her neighbor across the street has a tree in the front yard and its deemed too close to her home.
Also, where is the water coming from? Without watering, we have nothing green. We are in a desert here! We have constant water shortage. I hope people you research the subject in depth before taking side and suggests that planting more tree solves the rising temperature problem.
Personally I think better architecture may be a better solution. Changing city planning to allow for higher population density in smaller area, thus reducing miles driven may be more significant?

[pawsformercy]

Bakersfield is HORRID i got stuck there with my 2 dogs and AC went out I couldbt find a SHADE TREE TO SAVE OUR LIVES i literally panicked and started to cry after driving all over that dust bowl looking for a single shade tree and NEVER FOUND ONE it almost killed my poor senior boxer mix .It should be ILLEGAL for a town not to have a single shade tree for an entire COUNTY I finall had to drive 30 mi utes out of town to Heart Patk along the Kern River to find some relief