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How to Plant Trees on Google Maps
Search engines like Ecosia say that you can search the web to plant trees. Airlines ask you to pay an extra pound or dollar when booking a ticket to plant trees to offset carbon. Do all of these trees really get planted? If so, where are they on Google Maps? The difference between vast swathes of deforested land being reforested slowly is not going to necessarily be visible by satellite on Google Maps anyway. And there's the whole question about whether offsetting works at all.
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