Does anyone know if/how the human impact of planting trees is measured?
What I mean is, what metrics determine the "quality" of a tree plant? I assume this can vary greatly based on location and type of tree planted.
I often see impact quantified by CO2 removed from the environment, but what about the impact on people nearby?
Would it be better to plant 100 trees in the center of New Delhi, where the air is toxic and the population is sky high, or 10,000 trees in rural USA where the air may already be very clean?
On topic:
This is incredibly serious as pollution has serious effects not just on health, but on intelligence and behavior. It's a vicious cycle and India needs to break out of it. The environment minister's comments in the article are unbelievable.