YouTube stars raise over $6m to plant trees around the world
A group of YouTube stars have raised more than $6m (£4.7m) to plant trees around the world by rallying their huge numbers of subscribers.
The American YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, known as MrBeast, was challenged on Reddit in May to plant 20m trees to celebrate reaching 20 million subscribers on his YouTube channel, where he posts videos of extravagant stunts.
He then teamed up with other YouTubers to create the #TeamTrees project with a target of $20m – each $1 donation will plant one tree. Launched on 25 October, the crowdfunder raised $5m in just 48 hours, with $1.75m coming from YouTube alone, which the team claims is a new fundraising record for the site.
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Sounds like private enterprise is more agile in solving societal ills than government intervention to me.
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Not the reason there are more trees now than 100 years ago but good.
Glad we are giving all these new trees food (CO2) so that they can survive. -
HoustonHusky said:
Not the reason there are more trees now than 100 years ago but good.
Glad we are giving all these new trees food (CO2) so that they can survive.
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Free market providing actual solutions as always. The government would spend 10 times that for half the trees and take 5 times longer to do it.
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I already showed you there are more trees than everGwad said:HoustonHusky said:Not the reason there are more trees now than 100 years ago but good.
Glad we are giving all these new trees food (CO2) so that they can survive.
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100 years ago is now "more than ever"? Ok. Yes you clearly are the sharpest tool in here.RaceBannon said:
I already showed you there are more trees than everGwad said:HoustonHusky said:Not the reason there are more trees now than 100 years ago but good.
Glad we are giving all these new trees food (CO2) so that they can survive.
So who is ignorant? -
You said 100 years not me2001400ex said:
100 years ago is now "more than ever"? Ok. Yes you clearly are the sharpest tool in here.RaceBannon said:
I already showed you there are more trees than everGwad said:HoustonHusky said:Not the reason there are more trees now than 100 years ago but good.
Glad we are giving all these new trees food (CO2) so that they can survive.
So who is ignorant?
Dumbfuck
I said ever -
Is that like it's hotter now than 100 years ago?2001400ex said:
100 years ago is now "more than ever"? Ok. Yes you clearly are the sharpest tool in here.RaceBannon said:
I already showed you there are more trees than everGwad said:HoustonHusky said:Not the reason there are more trees now than 100 years ago but good.
Glad we are giving all these new trees food (CO2) so that they can survive.
So who is ignorant?
