I see posts here and there about how X company is starting a movement in which for every X sold or for every Y donated they’ll plant a tree. Now don’t get me wrong, this is great and all, but why can’t these governments just plant the trees themselves, without the action of constituents or what have you? I’m more concerned about governments, cause I can understand why companies do it.
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Governments *need* people to do absolutely *everything*.
The government can’t just decide to plant a load of trees without it costing the money of paying for the trees and paying someone to plant them. That requires taxpayers’ money, and taxpayers’ money is already budgeted for with more pressing issues like municipal services. If you want to increase the tax that taxpayers pay, well, they like to know what it is going to be used for. Governments tend to be very inefficient with money compared with companies. Taxpayers don’t like paying more money for a perceived waste of it. A lot of people don’t care about planting trees, especially when that money could’ve gone to repairing roads. Policies like that will eventually get a different government elected.
Companies do it as an incentive to get “moral minded” customers to buy more of their products. It’s not a noble cause.
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