Planting trees seems to be the new "Xabadsawda" in Somalia regarding climate change. This government is particularly pushing this very inappropriately.
Planting can just as much end up being a huge environmental threat as what you are trying to solve.
Improperly introducing flora and fauna often can result in the introduction of invasive species. Invasive species is a predator to existing echo system without evolutionary defenses to the introduced species.
Introduced invasive apecies end up strangling other roots, monopolizing nutrients, and even depriving native species of water and moisture.
It is like dams--they all think dams are 100% positive. No, many ecosystems are dependent on flood zones and soil and water run off. Improperly introducing dams can result in the destruction of habitats near and far who depend on the recharge of moisture and nutrients. It can turn dependent livelihood zones into dead zones. It alse has huge ramifications down river.
The environment we have is there as a result of adaptation. The trees we have, the feed, the range are all there through a process of long adaptation. They are there because they survived. In their seed they carry what they need to continue to reproduce.
Imagine you introduce a species that neither has the adaptation to surilvive AND becomes invasive killing the adapted flora. So now they caused the current species to be impacted and they end up not being able to survive themselves.
That's environmental death.
If planting trees were the antidote to climate change, we wouldn't have an environmental problem.
The individual or the infrequent artisanal expression planting is small in scope enough to not be much of a threat and even pleasant to come across.
Institutionally putting this forward as a policy or socio-political recommendation is dangerous and should be cautioned against.
And most of all, like a doctor is required to administer the possession of medicine to a human, a botanist or environmental expert should be the one administering any public or institutional policy or guideline recommending structural changes to the existing ecosystem.
