Wednesday, 16 March 2022 15:00

Tree rort!

Written by  The Hound
Tree rort!

OPINION: Your canine crusader reckons we should all be more aware of the latest environment scam - those companies who say they are planting trees in an effort to mitigate any environmental damage their current business practice is doing.

A couple of recent examples are one major building company saying it will plant 30,000 tress 'to offset' carbon produced for its latest construction development and a windscreen company that is advertising the fact it will plant a tree for every windscreen it replaces.

Have these businesses not heard of carbon farming and the hugely negative impact it is having on our landscape with monoculture forests infesting and taking over good farmland up and down the country?

Let alone the mass destruction of jobs and communities these new plantations are having on rural communities.

Is tree planting the new greenwashing?

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