The Benefits of Planting More Trees

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Trees are the only things that can produce their own food and then respire to use it. We're respiring every physical or every living thing uses respiration to breathe, and that's why we breathe out carbon dioxide and water. Trees do the exact opposite. They say take carbon dioxide,. turn it into oxygen and a simple sugar or a long chain of sugars. So all they do is just store it, store it,Store it and then just sort of sit there and then just eat sugar until they can start growing again. Just snackin'. Yeah, it's really nice. It's delicious, I wish I could do it. Do you think that planting more trees will save

Part 1 of a very special duo: Do trees have feelings? How do they talk? How old can they get? Are there any tree stories that will make me cry? Spoiler: YES. This episode aired in May 2018 and is worth a revisit, especially since Part 2 is a brand new 2020 interview with possibly the world's most enthusiastic tree expert, J. Casey Clapp. Learn about his many tree tattoos, new additions to those tattoos, how roots communicate to each other, "crown shyness,” social media shyness and the mental health benefits of tree proximity. Also: banana facts and Casey f*cking hates apples.

Be sure to hear the fresh catch-up interview in Part 2 to learn what Casey’s been up to since this originally aired. He’s been busy.

Follow Casey Clapp at Instagram.com/Clapp4Trees and his new podcast Instagram.com/arbortrarypod

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