Is this garbage news?

[Rev. Rye]

I'm not sure exactly how these trees are being planted. Here's my hypothesis, which I suspect may actually be wrong: many of these are glorified seedlings, which I suspect would be a lot easier to plant. I can recall once buying a little tube filled with a sapling of a Giant Sequoia (mine didn't last), and some of the saplings I've seen planted in GIS look about that size. It's worth noting that the population of Ethiopia is a bit over 100 million. Assuming that the entire population was involved (which I admittedly doubt), that works out to about 3.5 trees per day. Naturally, I doubt that the whole population was involved, but I suspect that, if you assume that a lot of those trees were about that size, the whole "350 million trees in one day" thing starts to become more plausible. Also, I suspect that Ethiopia wasn't alone in this project. Perhaps some of the infrastructure (and maybe some of the trees) came from other, more developed, nations that could have helped Ethiopia. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the trees didn't last.