Arabeyes: Reversing the Greenhouse Effect in Egypt · Global Voices
Amira Al Hussaini

What will you do if you could reverse the adverse results of the  Greenhouse Effect  and make your country at least 5 degrees Celsius cooler? Bent Masreya, from Egypt, addresses this issue in the following translation.
It can indeed work out only if people pooled in and donated money to grow forests. The trees, in turn, will absorb Carbon Dioxide and emit Oxygen, making the world a better place and summers more bearable. However, it is not as simple as it sounds, explains the blogger, whose name means Egyptian Girl.
المهم الدكتور ده كان بيتكلم عن خطورة الاحتباس الحراري، ما علينا مش هنقعد نشرح المصيبة اللى مستنية كوكب الارض وسكانه لما تزيد درجة حرارة الأرض، ولا التلج اللى هيدوب ومستوى المياه اللى هيزيد واليابس الى هيغرق ويختفى تحت سطح البحر – بما فيهم خمس جزر فى الهند راحوا خلاص بسبب الاحتباس، ولا هنتكلم عن تأثيره على بقاء حيوانات او حشرات بعينها ولا ان نوع الحرب فى المستقبل هتكون على المية وكده
I don't want to sound pessimistic but seriously, I hope we would be able to implement this solution and not exacerbate this issue by side problems such as the fact that we are a nation of people who don't have a culture of volunteering. I feel with a little bit of awareness, people will be able to contribute and instead of paying a Pound, they will pay 10 and instead of planting 10 trees, we will have a 100.
The second problem is that this project maybe launched under the patronage of the Agriculture Ministry or it may be responsible for it from the beginning to the end. This will be a real catastrophe because a project like this will be ruined – if not from thefts, then from bureaucracy. The best solution is for a society to be formed for this purpose – to grow trees around cities – and this could be its lifelong mission.