The Rest of Tom's Blog. Please keep it up. I don't always agree with you. But your viewpoint is vital. InshaAllah God willing I intend to hang in there a little while longer. I had forgotten about his songs.
Afghanistan is such a tragedy from start to finish the whole 20 years. I listen to it over and over again. So sad and yet so hopeful. Leonard Cohen is gone; but he left us such an incomparable gift in his music and poetry. Long story. I think the Turkish people did well. They appear to have been successful in putting out their fires , while fires continue to burn in many other places, including the western United States. Turkey received a lot of help in firefighting from many friends, from Russia to the United States.
International cooperation is so very important. Turkey has big plans to plant seven billion trees by Seven billion trees can sequester a lot of carbon which will reduce global warming and make such devastating fires less likely in the future.
We wish Turkey a great success in this very important endeavor. Lots of trees. Ten billion of them, to be precise. I knew nothing about this project. Turns out it's been around for about six years. It started in a province with a one-billion-tree goal, was successful there, and was expanded to include the whole country.
The idea behind it is to fight global warming. Nice that somebody is trying to do something about it. Growing a forest is not as easy as it might seem.
