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Treeapp - Plant a tree for free daily.
(lemmy.world)
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
Unfortunately it says the app is not available in my country :(
As an alternative, the Ecosia search engine uses revenue from ads to plant trees, but I haven't done a deep dive on them as to how effective they are (Update: They actually seem to be pretty legit and effective from what I can tell).
There's also Ekoru, another search engine that instead focuses on using revenue for ocean cleanup and replanting seagrass, which is a better carbon sink than young trees, and is apparently a little more privacy friendly compared to Ecosia.