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TeamTrees has almost hit 20M trees planted (teamtrees.org)
3 points by michaelbrooks on Dec 19, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Note that no tree has been planted, they only collected almost US$20M. From the FAQ:

> When will the trees be planted?

> Trees will be planted throughout the year starting in January of 2020 and completed no later than December 2022. [...]


This makes the headline and the claim on the page itself rather misleading, doesn't it? It's a predicate - the trees are planted or they are not planted. Speaking past tense about things that may or may not happen in the future is deceitful at best.

I hope it succeeds. It obviously would be a good thing. But the current claims are not unlike Trump demanding a Nobel for his North Korean Summit that totally didn't work out like he said it did, or his fantasy reports of the many new miles of Wall being built at a time there were no new miles at all, but MIGHT be built, depending on if he can secure the money by squeezing it out of other places first.

It really casts a shadow of doubt on the entire premise.




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