Can planting billions of trees save our planet?
Trees help cleanse the air by intercepting airborne particles, reducing heat,
and absorbing pollutants such as carbon monoxide, sulphur dioxide, and nitrogen dioxide.
and absorbing pollutants such as carbon monoxide, sulphur dioxide, and nitrogen dioxide.
Trees are sound barriers -- as effective as stone walls in stopping sound.
Today this blog celebrates TREES via poetry by Australian visual artist and poet, Belinda Broughton -- her performance-poem "EDGES" has been part of an exhibition, Solastalgia at Fabrik, in Lobethal, South Australia -- and here in this video she performs the poem in front of a drawing that she created with charcoal from her recently burnt home, tragically part of Australia's recent and widespread outbreak of wildfires.
I include below, some of the opening and closing lines of Broughton's poem; after these, I offer a link to the print version of the complete poem.
Edges by Belinda Broughton
Who will speak for the trees? Who will speak for the trees?
Who will speak for the forest, for that part
of the natural world? Because it’s all nature, let’s face it,
even this crass world with its concrete and steel,
its plastic paint and polluted pavements.
It is nature.
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