Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has a good idea with which the US could solve climate change and illegal immigration with a political initiative.
Trees for Visa: Mexico Proposes US Citizenship for Reforestation
April 23, 20213: 55 p.m. AEST
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador suggested Thursday that the U.S. government would offer temporary work visas and eventually citizenship to those participating in a major tree-planting program that it hopes to expand to Central America.
In a remark at a virtual climate summit in the White House, Lopez Obrador said Mexico was aiming to extend its government-signed “Sembrando Vida” or “Sowing Life” program to Central America, which is planting 700,000 trees.
Calling it “possibly the largest reforestation effort in the world,” Lopez Obrador said the program aims to create 1.2 million jobs and plant 3 billion additional trees through expansion into southeastern Mexico and Central America.
At the two-day climate summit, attended by heads of state and government from 40 countries, Lopez Obrador said that US President Joe Biden could “finance” the expansion of the program to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/trees-visas-mexico-suggests-us-citizenship-reforestation-2021-04-22/
I don’t think Mexico takes Biden’s climate protection initiative seriously – as WUWT reported in early April, President Obrador is pushing for a significant expansion of the Mexican coal fleet. But you have to admire his sense of humor.
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