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An Initiative by MrBeast and Mark Rober
#TEAMTREES
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An Initiative by MrBeast and Mark Rober

#TEAMTREES

Mark Rober is also an American Youtuber, engineer and inventor. He is known for his YouTube videos on popular science, do-it-yourself gadgets and creative ideas.

Jimmi Donaldson aka MrBeast is an American Youtuber who is known for his philanthrophy all around around the world.

Who are the Initiators?

OVERVIEW

  • Team Trees, also trending as #teamtrees, is a collaborative fundraiser that raised 20 million U.S. dollars before 2020 to plant 20 million trees.
  • The initiative was started by American YouTubers MrBeast and Mark Rober, and was mostly supported by YouTubers.
  • All donations go to the Arbor Day Foundation, a tree-planting organization that pledges to plant one tree for every U.S. dollar donated.
  • By December 26, 2019, the project had raised over $20.7 million, surpassing the fundraiser's goal to plant 20 million trees.

Source: Wikipedia

WHAT EXACTLY IS THE INITIATIVE?

What's the motive?

Whats's achieved?

(1)As of October 2020, the project has raised over $22.3 million and planted over 4.6million trees.(2)In addition to social media influencers, large corporations made large donations including Verizon, EA, Salesforce, Shopify and Tesla.(3)Discovery Channel made a documentary called #TeamTrees about the campaign which aired on December 3, 2019, coupled with a donation of USD $100,200 the next day.

It is estimated that 20 million trees would take up 180 km2 of land, would absorb around 1.6 million tons of carbon and remove 116 thousand tons of chemical air pollution from the atmosphere. These impacts are definitely amazing and are possible just because of social media.

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(1)As applied to Team Trees, Climate scientist Dr.Simon Clark mentioned that someone who donates to the fundraiser may feel justified to perform other actions that might completely offset the carbon reduction obtained by planting the trees.(2)He mentioned how the carbon reductions from an entire lifetime of 20 trees could also be achieved by going vegan for six years.(3)Clark also attempted to put into perspective just how little of an effect Team Trees would have relative to the amount of carbon emitted annually.

Statements of people who criticised the initiative.

ELBERT HUBBARD

'Positive ANYTHING is better than negative NOTHING'

A member of #teamtrees

Reason behind choosing this topic is simple,MrBeast, my favourite youtuber. According to me such online campaigns should be launched regularly by such influencers because they have the maximum reach. Donating a dollar for a tree is not a big deal. I request all of you, if possible, to contribute in this amazing social cause even though they have reached their collection goal.

Arya Vardhan Bhadana(21 trees)

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