Photo above: Christine Kanini with a tagged cashew nut tree Why do it? Here in Britain we invented The Industrial Revolution and so we have been releasing large amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere for many years and in Wales we have the 12th largest per capita carbon footprint in the world. There is no way around it – the way we live is destroying the world’s atmosphere so we have to change our ways. The first part of this is for us to reduce the quantity of CO2 that we release every day by turning off those lights, driving less, turning down our central heating thermostats etc. The second way that we can help protect our atmosphere is to plant trees to withdraw carbon from the air. Bore in Kenya is a community that is bearing the brunt of the climatic changes that our carbon intensive way of life has created so it makes a lot of sense to compensate for our emissions by supporting them.
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