Lesson 3 Nature & Us
Letters to Nature
Dear Tree, Whenever I walk past ____ your beautiful leaves bring a smile to my face.
Whenever I stop in front of ____ and take a deep breath of fresh air, I appreciate the oxygen that you produce.
Without you and all your ____ we humans wouldn’t be able to get enough oxygen.
____ the way, I noticed that a family of birds has made a nest in your branches.
It’s so kind of you to ____ them with a home.
I hope that more people realize how important you and all the other trees are to the environment. Have ____ nice day!
Believe it ____ not, trees in Melbourne, Australia receive emails like this all the time.
How ____ it possible that trees have email addresses?
And ____ are people sending them messages?
The story behind these emails begins with Melbourne’s Urban ____ Strategy plan, a response to Australia’s millennium drought.
This drought lasted from the late 1990s to ____
By the time it ended, 40 percent of the city’s ____ trees were in a state of declining health.
Furthermore, the overall ____ of trees was decreasing.
As a result,
As a result, the amount ____ shade provided by trees within the city, also known as canopy cover, decreased.
The loss of canopy cover ____ a major threat to urban environments because it raises temperatures.
____ temperatures in cities can be dangerous for residents, as they increase the risk of heat exhaustion.
They also ____ to a rise in the use of air-conditioning.
This ____ up climate change by increasing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.
Something had to be done to deal with the loss ____ Melbourne’s trees.
In 2012, the city government ____ its Urban Forest Strategy plan.
It set the ambitious goal of planting more than 3,000 ____ every year for the next twenty years.
The plan also involved the creation of an online map ____ the Urban Forest Visual.
This interactive map ____ the location of every single tree in the city’s parks and along its roads.
It uses ____ and symbols to indicate each tree’s age and genus.
Also, users can click on a tree to find out its species and ____ send it an email.
At first, the “Email ____ tree” function had a specific purpose.
It was designed to allow people to ____ inform council workers about trees that were damaged or in poor health.
After the map was posted online,
After the map was posted online, something unexpected ____
The trees started receiving thousands of emails, but many of them were not reports about ____ or poor health.
Instead, they were love letters, ____ greetings, and messages expressing appreciation for the trees.
One person wrote, “I love the way the light shines on your leaves and ____ your branches hang so low.
It is almost ____ you are trying to hug me.”
The tree mail phenomenon quickly spread, ____ people all over the world started sending messages.
A message that was sent all the way from Russia ____
“When I read about this ____ project, I was inspired to write to you, even though I live thousands of miles away.
Although ____ are separated by a great distance, we share the same planet and the same environment.
Perhaps one day we ____ meet. Until then, I hope you can stay healthy and strong.”
The global popularity of the tree ____ phenomenon reminds us that we are all connected to nature, and we are all involved in building a more sustainable world.
Without collective action from people across the globe, we ____ have little hope of saving our planet for future generations.
Locally, the tree mail phenomenon has inspired many Melbourne residents to offer their own ideas ____ building an environmentally friendly urban environment.
Some ____ even volunteered to measure trees and monitor animals for nature programs in the city.
Meanwhile, the Urban Forest Strategy’s tree ____ project has remained on track, and canopy cover is predicted to increase from 23 percent in 2012 to 40 percent by the year 2040.
Melbourne’s urban forest strategy will ____ keep the city cool.
____ will also allow residents to interact with nature and engage in outdoor activities every day.
As a result, residents will be happier and healthier as they move ____ a greener future.
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