Earth Day calls for trust in act of planting trees

It might seem as if Earth Day 2025 — and, really, at least the next three after that — will be particularly daunting, more call to the difficult work ahead than recognition of past accomplishments and hope for progress.

Last year was the warmest year on earth since record-keeping began in 1850; the last 10 years were the 10 warmest on record, according to the independent nonprofit research effort Berkeley Earth.

That record of the last decade weighs especially heavily as the world confronts the realities of what failing to limit the rise of global temperature to well less than 2 degrees Celsius — 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit — and more ideally 1.5 degrees C above pre-industrial levels as called for in the Paris Climate Agreement will mean for a range of devastating effects from climate change.

Backsliding: Providing no relief from those numbers are the political realities that arrived with the reelection of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency.

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