The forests are vanishing, that’s no secret. Not just the rainforests, no, trees are cut down or burnt everywhere, which makes global warming even worse.
So what can we do? Plant new trees? Yes, okay. But that takes forever and is extremely expensive. And not every area where trees should grow is easy to reach. So what then?
How about …
Bombing the shit out of those pieces of land!
No, wait, that sounds largely ineffective. Bombing something to make trees grow?
It can actually be done. But the bombs in question aren’t your typical “I will fuck up everything you love” – bombs but … Seed bombs.
Seeds from local trees are encased in biodegradable metal (yes, according to the sources it does exist) and dropped out of C-130 transport aircrafts.
You know, those things that had been introduced to the military in the 1950’s to lay carpets of landmines, among other things. Now it’s supposed to drop cone-shaped containers that have everything a new seed needs to grow. Like fertilizer and some stuff that soaks up the water in the ground around it. 
Pretty neat.
Using this technique, 100,000 seeds per flight can be dropped and about 70 percent of those actually grow up into beautiful trees. Not bad, in my opinion. And a lot quicker than planting them all from hand.
The whole process is called “aerial reforestation” and can not only be used to fight global warming but also to repair forests that have fallen victim to big fires or plant trees in regions that are barren.
Make trees, not war!
Sources:
Could military strategy win the war on global warming?
Aerial bombardment to reforest the earth
Reforestation efforts improving as 'seed bombing' initiative shells out 900,000 future trees per day
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