Money grows on trees after all
This post includes a brief summary of Amy Fleming’s article as my assignment for English 100. As the title states, it entails interesting facts about trees and their advantageous qualities within urban environments. Intrigued? Have a read below!
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In “The Importance of Urban Forests,” (2016) author Amy Fleming explains the vast value of trees in urban communities. Through research-based evidence, she precisely illustrates the significance that trees have on energy conservation, cost efficiency, and remarkably improvements to health. The author reports staggering findings of trees to reduce air conditioning use by 30% (Fleming 2) as well as the economic impact of elm trees in New York with benefits equating to more than a hundred million dollars each year (Fleming 3). Further research findings also reveal shocking effects trees aid to health. According to public health expert William Bird, in areas populated by more trees, people tend to be more familiar with their neighbourhoods by going out more, and as a result, lessen anxiety and depression (Fleming 4). This article moreover affirms the importance and concern over the global conservation of trees for their worth to society. With canopies of leaves and long arching branches, there are more to trees than just aesthetics. Fleming proves that they are not merely “expensive ornaments”(2), but they transmit an abundance of well-being as is if money indeed grows on trees.
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Work Cited:
Fleming, Amy. “The importance of urban forests: why money really does grow on trees.” The Guardian, 12 October 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/oct/12/
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