Page 5 - climate change

To stop climate change, Kaili Liu says, it's time to start planting trees

and greenery. Everywhere. If he could do one thing to stop climate

change right now, Daniel Schäffer, 17, would start planting. Daniel is a

senior at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring. Md. Plants

take up CO2 from the atmosphere and store that carbon in their trunks,
stems and leaves, so the more plants, the less CO2 to worry about. "I'd

stop deforestation and plant a ton of trees," he says. "It's not the quickest,

but it's sustainable. Plus, it doesn't force people to change their

behaviors.

"Plant more trees anywhere there's space," agrees Kalli Liu, 17. The

senior at Ravenwood High School in Brentwood, Tenn, wants to put

plants on buildings, too, she says, She advocates creating more green

roofs-covering roofs with gardens and greenery. "Green roofs and trees
will help decrease CO2 emissions," she says