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I recently came across an initiative called Project Green Hands in Tamil Nadu, India. The idea was kinda simple but bit ambitious - increase green cover by distributing saplings, working with farmers (agroforestry), and getting communities involved.

They aimed for ~114 million trees and reportedly reached ~112 million living trees by 2025, involving millions of volunteers, students, and farmers. That scale surprised me.

From what I understand, the focus wasn’t just planting trees randomly, but integrating them into farmland and using native, climate-suitable species.

At the same time, maybe tree planting doesn’t replace emissions cuts, and poorly planned efforts can even backfire. But projects like this make me wonder, how much impact can well-executed, large-scale afforestation or agroforestry actually have?

Would love to hear thoughts from people who know more about this, especially on what makes these efforts genuinely effective vs just symbolic.

Anyways it made me feel a bit more hopeful, at least :))

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