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Plant a tree. Do it. Right now. Okay, okay, you need to go out and get a seed, or a tree first. Fine. But do it. Really, it is good to plant trees. It should be the right kind of tree for the environment. Plant trees native to the environment. Plant trees that can manage the environment and bear you fruit. Or perhaps it's better to plant native trees and learn how to use their offerings, even if it's not something you're familiar with. Octavia Butler talks about acorn flour bread in Parable of the Sower. There is a type of tree native to southern California that one can create acorn flour with. So plant that, if you live in southern California. One can transform deserts with trees. What is the name of that activist that planted thousands of trees? I will look it up before I post this. I think she is still alive. I think she won a Nobel for it, or something equally honorable. She was part of a movement of women protecting trees. She wrote a book. There is a local org, or maybe it's a national org, or heck maybe it's worldwide, called Tree People. You can plant trees with Tree People. So plant some trees. Have you heard of micro forests? I'd like to create a micro forest here, in our backyard or at Lochlan's school. That would be cool. There are lots of ways to make our world a better place, and we need more people who are trying to do that.
I was getting my tree protecting, tree planting women jumbled into one in my mind. This is Wangari Maathai, the woman who won a Nobel for her work:
This is about the women protecting trees in India:
https://www.kosmosjournal.org/kj_article/99176/
This is Vandana Shiva, the woman I was thinking about who was involved with those women in India, and who wrote an important book (more than one, really):