You can train your kids early in the appreciation of plants, especially trees, by making them participate in the making of a nursery in your yard for the planting of different kinds of seeds in small cans as your contribution to your community's efforts in the tree-planting programs to restore the forest cover of the world. A plant nursery in every home can be the vogue in any community shortly, as the world gets more aware of the seriousness of the global warming problem.
While these seeds and the seedling cans may appear like learning wooden toys of the kids, it has great impact on their consciousness with regard to the movement for a better world environment. The movement could be snowballing in a few months as a most important reaction of people worldwide as the global warming problem persists.
The worldwide movement to restore the forests is likely to be pursued in earnest by all countries now calling for conferences and consultations on the environment, as an answer to curb the rising world temperatures. The forests will be the sure fire fix for the heating problem.
While modern technology may have such things as the artificial trees to capture the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, still the permanent and most effective remedy to global warming will be the restoration of the world’s forests.
Thus, the participation of everyone through out the globe (including the child playing with the seed and the seedling can in the nursery) will be mandatory, if humanity hopes to save the planet. After all this is the only planet yet, fit as a habitat of man until perhaps when other planets become available for man to migrate to, and occupy as a new place to live. This is rather far fetched as of now, and there is no telling really on whether there could be such a new planet forthcoming.
The best thing to do is save this planet Earth that we already have and restore its temperature levels to the levels before the onset of the global warming problem. A child's hands helping to plant seeds in the nursery’s seedling cans may look like he or she is playing with a learning toy, but the impact of the act is tremendous, not only for the kid, but for all of humanity.
A tree starts as a seed planted with care and nourished with water as the seed begins to germinate. A kid’s concern for the growth of his tree is a very strong symbol for the international concern for planet Earth.
A picture of a child playing with a learning toy like the seedling can and watering the germinating seedling with love can be a very appropriate logo for the movement to save Mother Nature. That picture in the logo will surely catch the imagination of the world.
If there will still be people who remain indifferent to the movement to save the trees, after seeing that child watering his tree in the logo, there must be something wrong with this kind of people. Maybe it will be wise to exile them to the planet Mars.
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