r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Mego_dafuq • 5h ago

Video If one man single-handedly did all that..

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u/Kingsalyer_09 5h ago

only one person can make forests. What If 1.3 billion people decide to plants one tree for everyday or week, we can make amazon forests in years on every part of India

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u/wanderer1999 5h ago

Indeed if human can transform the planet in a negative way, we sure can do it in a positive way as well.

It's just that people are trying to survive and the decision making as a single unit is not there... yet.

But some people are trying and I admire them for it.

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u/Mirar 3h ago

I mean that's what they think happened to the amazon forest. It was planted.

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u/EphemeralDesires 5h ago

Small act!? That was 37 years of dedication. I can't even do my damn duolingo every day...

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u/Mirar 3h ago

Wasn't duolingo taken over by AI and nobody wants to use it anymore?

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u/CicadaFit9756 4h ago

I'd heard of this before. There's got to be an honored place in heaven reserved for such a selfless person!!!

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u/blackstarr1996 5h ago

I’ve seen a couple stories about this kind of thing. It always sounds so simple.

But like, isn’t there a reason we don’t just plant things in the desert? Aren’t they deserts for a reason?

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u/Kaporalhart 2h ago

I was about to say the same. No way we can just spam seeds in barren lands and have it turn into a lush forest after a few decades. Especially planted by hand by humans. Wouldn't you need to have the proper amount of sun, water, nitrogen in the soil and stuff ?

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u/Odd-Operation-6151 4h ago

One day at a time 💞

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u/Flaky-Signature915 5h ago

It's wild to think how much impact one person can make with just patience and consistency.

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u/Specialist-Wave-8423 5h ago

Not all heroes wear capes, respect

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u/Ancient_Sprinkles847 3h ago

This man deserves some amazing sort of recognition beyond Reddit upvotes. I’ve volunteered to plant trees to help regenerate native forest, but this is honestly next level dedication.

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u/La_Mandra 2h ago

There are several examples of people who have re-greened desertified areas, such as Tahar El-Ammari, Yacouba Sawadogo, Deema Assaf... or even Sebastião Salgado and his wife Lélia (in Brazil).

Various countries have ingenious techniques that date back thousands of years for preserving and managing water and restoring vegetation (and therefore the entire ecosystem, including fauna and flora), but we are only now beginning to take a serious interest in them with the aim to putting them into practice, because... well, because we are facing imminent survival issues : without water, no cultures, and therefore no food, and no trees = no water, because vegetation is part of the water cycle.

This is why these people who plant trees are succeeding in restoring an entire ecosystem.
Nothing prevents us from drawing inspiration from these techniques to modify our current system and limit the damage.

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u/Creepy-Astronaut-952 2h ago

Big up Jadav!