DON BOSCO CHURCH VADODARA

• Greenhouse effect is when gases like carbon dioxide in the atmosphere holds the sun’s heat like a blanket. This causes severe change in global temperatures which in turn causes extreme weather patterns.
• Trees take in this Carbon dioxide out of the air as they grow storing it as wood while also helping to store more carbon in the soil below them.
• Planting enough trees can restore balance to our atmosphere by converting the excess carbon dioxide into healthy ecosystems and into many useful resources that people need.
• Trees create clouds that help cool the earth. Clouds created plays an huge role in keeping the earth cool by reflecting the sun’s heat back into space before it reaches the earth.
• It’s estimated that if we could increase the worlds cloud over by just 3% through tree planting so much less of the sun’s heat would reach the earth that these extra clouds alone could cool the earth enough to counteract climate change.
• Forests mighty canopies shade the ground and waters beneath them which keeps the earth cooler and protects the living soil which would otherwise dry out and become lifeless, as the living soil can store an incredible amount of carbon keeping climate change causing carbon dioxide out of our atmosphere.
• When soil becomes too hot and dry the Carbon molecules in the soil rebound with oxygen and release carbon dioxide back into the air.
• Around cities and industrial zones molecules combines with water vapour and forms humid haze, this traps in more of the sun’s heat.
• Sunlight powers photosynthesis, the sun’s heat is used by leaves to convert carbon dioxide and water into the building blocks of plant matter while creating oxygen.
• This plant matter becomes food for animals and the energy then continues up the food chain. So the miracle of photosynthesis protects the earth from overheating and provides for all life on the planet.
• Further decline of our world’s forest is not a direction we can afford to go in.
• With “A tree a day campaign” we see large scale planting as being worlds most affordable and multi benefit opportunity to effectively counteract change.