This is not getting any media attention, but it's important we all know it happened.

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Baconqueen13 wrote: Mon Jan 20, 2020 9:47 am Just think, if each one of those people had planted a tree, that WOULD have done something to promote afforestation.
Bihar has a poverty rate of 30%, 10% higher than the rest of the country, and that is the poverty rate defined by India, meaning that in order to be considered below the poverty line you have to make under 11,600 rupees a day, which is the equivalent to someone in the US living off of $5,000 a year. This is extreme poverty. Only 67 percent of the state is literate. Most of these people do not have large pieces of land to plant and care for 35 million trees. 35 million people is one third of the state's population. It is one of the few things that they can do to stand together and get media coverage of issues that they find important.
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I don't see why this is so important but we all have different interests.
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If all of those 43 million gave a penny to an organization that plants trees that would be nearly half a million dollars. That would plant a lot of trees.
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Olioxenfree wrote: Mon Jan 20, 2020 1:49 pm
Baconqueen13 wrote: Mon Jan 20, 2020 9:47 am Just think, if each one of those people had planted a tree, that WOULD have done something to promote afforestation.
Bihar has a poverty rate of 30%, 10% higher than the rest of the country, and that is the poverty rate defined by India, meaning that in order to be considered below the poverty line you have to make under 11,600 rupees a day, which is the equivalent to someone in the US living off of $5,000 a year. This is extreme poverty. Only 67 percent of the state is literate. Most of these people do not have large pieces of land to plant and care for 35 million trees. 35 million people is one third of the state's population. It is one of the few things that they can do to stand together and get media coverage of issues that they find important.
Hate to burst your reality bubble but standing together does jack shit and clearly they aren't getting the desired media coverage. They'll get a one sentence entry in the Guinness Book of world Records.

Longest Human chain- On (insert date here) 43million people formed the longest human chain 16,500 km from Point A to point B, Bihar.

Nothing will be mentioned about why they formed the chain or that it was done in "Conservation efforts" as forming a chain does nothing for actual conservation efforts, but here's a gold star for their efforts on a failed publicity stunt.
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mojogirl wrote: Mon Jan 20, 2020 2:12 pm If all of those 43 million gave a penny to an organization that plants trees that would be nearly half a million dollars. That would plant a lot of trees.
As I said to a previous poster, Bihar has a poverty rate of 30%, 10% higher than the rest of the country, and that is the poverty rate defined by India, meaning that in order to be considered below the poverty line you have to make under 11,600 rupees a year, which is the equivalent to someone in the US living off of $5,000 a year. This is extreme poverty. Only 67 percent of the state is literate. Most of these people do not have spare pennies and large pieces of land to plant and care for 35 million trees. 35 million people is one third of the state's population. It is one of the few things that they can do to stand together and get media coverage of issues that they find important.
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That'swhatshesaid wrote: Mon Jan 20, 2020 2:02 pm I don't see why this is so important but we all have different interests.
Fewer trees mean more greenhouse gases in the air. And since we're all on the same planet, deforestation on a mass scale is a big deal anywhere and should alarm everyone no matter where you live.
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How many of the people forming that chain are interested in anything happening in the United States?
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How many of the people forming that chain are interested in anything happening in the United States?
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So cool, thanks for posting. Here in the US it seems as if the media presents climate change activists as bored, whiny, elite. These people get it and took time out of their day (time/money that they could probably ill afford) to demonstrate. They are champions.
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