Planting Trees
Plant trees. In the carbon age.
Why?
- The opening. Cork city man Paddy Mahony diabetic overweight and older looking than his actual years woke up to the sound of his neighbours beating on his door Friday night November 20th 2009 . As he clambered in a confused state out of his bed he found himself stepping to his great surprise into two feet of water. Paddy is a victim, a victim of the meteorological clock that winds up in the North Atlantic almost daily. . The warm winds of the Gulf of Mexico enter into a dance of war with the cold winds coming from the North Pole. Where? Around Newfoundland and then in a demented passé doble careers across the Atlantic the warm air in flight from the cold lightening its load of water and dumping torrents right into the British Isles. The weather dance becomes more intense in late autumn –winter. And as the globe warms these storms are becoming more violent. .
- Besides being a victim of meteorology Paddy is also a victim of history, the industrial history of the last 200 years. Mankind has heated the atmosphere by countless burning of fossil fuels. Before the 19th century the only fossil fuel extensively used was wood which didn’t increase global warming as more trees took up the carbon dioxide exhaled by the burning of the previous generation of trees.
- But it was when the fossilised trees of geological ages began to be burnt that the earths atmosphere was on its way to carbon overload. With the coming of the steam age man began to exploit the carbon dioxide that was stored in the earth long before historical times . Carbon dioxide lay trapped in the ground underneath from the carboniferous age when great rain forests amidst huge swamps grew and fell and rotted and in time hardened into great seams of hard rock , coal, a reservoir of energy waiting to be burnt. Coal ,the fossilised fuel of the 19th century . The steel mills and railways sent huge clouds of carbon into the sky.
- Pollution is global. It is not confined to the country or to the time that pollutes. So the November rain storms of 2009 that sent Paddy O Mahony out of his bed may well be the result of the carbon that was sent into the sky in 1899.
- What deluges then await us because of the carbon released by the most carbon polluting century in the history of the world? The 20th century. We are condemned to even greater rain and wind in some future year of the 21st century the climatologists claim there will be ever greater floods and storms. A great one Every 6or 7 years is the prediction. We will be condemned to a great flood 2016 or 2017?as,. What can we do? We can only await our fate with courage and foresight. The inevitability of heavier rain and stronger winds is certain. As Mary Robinson has said “We are in it now” Governments especially the Irish Government can build greater infrastructure to cope with swollen rivers . Coming to my plea regarding trees . See them as part of the solution to keeping our children and grandchildren dry and safe in their beds
- My plea is that all those housing developments built on river plains be abandoned, replaced by great stands of native trees. All our rivers will become tree lined and as we move away from the river vallies towards the mountains belts of hardier trees, native to Europe, will provide great shelter belts sweep across the countryside. That will be the work of government and Coillte. What can you do ?
- You also
- Can plant trees! If you have no plants in your front garden and have removed them for a car park you are contributing to flash floods. Every front garden should grow one garden tree. Grow a shelter belt at your back boundary. All this shrubbery and trees will improve the water retaining ability of the ground and the land will, despite the heavier rain, be able to store far more water and to release the water more gradually. Our tree cover at the moment is a mere 10% of the landscape, one of the lowest in Europe. Once in the 16th century it was possible for a squirrel to cross this wooded island, tree to tree from Dublin to Galway. We must aim for 40% of the land covered in trees. Where there is one tree now there should be 4.
- Besides the country becoming more water retentive there will be other advantages
- The land will store more carbon dioxide in the trees shrubs, falling leaves and roots . The ecology of insects microbes birds and others up the food chain will increase and multiply. If all these woods seems to fail in the bad years in the face of ever increasing rain , it will only be a seeming failure . There will be the good years in between and think of the leaves of spring, the dawn chorus of birds , the sylvan cool of summer and the golden autumns of each year amidst our trees both in our own gardens and in our great sylvan sweeps of countryside .We will have the poetry of what Joyce Kilmer celebrated and prophesised. We will return as a Celtic people to our culture ,,a woodland people who once venerated and will venerate once again our trees . They will save and inspire the Irish people, keep our old warm in winter, the workers employed cool in summer and our future generation dry throughout the whole year .
- Plant trees.
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