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Cities Are Good at Planting Trees. They’re Not So Good at Keeping Them | The Walrus (thewalrus.ca)
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[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

City trees are much more expensive than rural trees to maintain. Orders of magnitude more so.

[–] LibertyLizard 5 points 7 months ago

Well rural trees are typically extremely low cost to maintain. I’m not sure I understand the relevance of this comment.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

Then they should plant rural trees