I can get on board with this whole positivity thing. Even turn a blind eye to government spin, if it means a heap of trees get planted. 500,000, 1 billion, 2 billion, I don’t care, let’s just have it done. Planting trees, on so many levels, is a good thing to do. Erosion of soil from hillsides. Plant trees. Leaching of nitrates and animal effluent into waterways. Plant some trees. …Many reasons for planting trees, then, and that’s before getting to the big one, global warming. … To that aim, this Government wants 1 billion trees, mostly radiata pine, planted on marginal land over the next 10 years. This will go some way towards meeting our carbon reduction targets under the Paris Agreement. An important driver of this will be the resuscitation of New Zealand’s Emissions Trading Scheme.