{"id":55842,"date":"2025-01-28T18:28:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T18:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/mrbeast-responds-to-bizarre-criticism-of-his-tree-planting-project-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T18:28:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T18:28:17","slug":"mrbeast-responds-to-bizarre-criticism-of-his-tree-planting-project-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/mrbeast-responds-to-bizarre-criticism-of-his-tree-planting-project-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"MrBeast responds to bizarre criticism of his tree planting project &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MrBeast responds to bizarre criticism of his tree planting project YouTube star Jimmy \u2018MrBeast\u2019 Donaldson has responded to criticism after announcing the Team Trees fundraiser on October 25 which plans to plant 20 million trees. Many of YouTube\u2019s biggest content creators have rallied in support of MrBeast after he announced that he would be starting up a fundraiser in efforts to plant 20 million trees in a fight against climate change. Despite the overwhelming support he received for his latest project, the YouTuber still received some criticism from those highlighting that there are better ways to fight the earth\u2019s largest problem. MrBeast responded to those critics explaining that he wasn\u2019t expecting to singlehandedly solve the world climate issues, instead highlighting that any action should be treated as a positive. \u201cJust to be clear we all realize 20 million trees won\u2019t fix climate change,\u201d the YouTuber admitted, \u201cBut at the end of the day 20 million more trees is better than 0!\u201d He then highlighted that a lack of action across the past few years is part of the reason why climate change had gotten to such a bad state, \u201cWe want to take action because doing nothing is how we got here!\u201d Just to be clear we all realize 20 million trees won\u2019t fix climate change. But at the end of the day 20 million more trees is better then 0! We want to take action because doing nothing is how we got here! \u2014 MrBeast (@MrBeastYT) October 27, 2019 Many expressed to MrBeast that his efforts in fighting climate change could be better focused on preserving the current rainforests as planting new trees would take years until it would have a considerable impact. \u201cPlanting trees is good but its a long term solution,\u201d said one of his fans, linking him a video that highlighted the differences, \u201csaving trees that are fully grown is better.\u201d Planting trees is good but its a long term solution, saving trees that are fully grown is better. Here&#8217;s a video explaining that: https:\/\/t.co\/jpx7hutfQm \u2014 Jejkobbb (@Jejkobbb) October 27, 2019 MrBeast has already received massive support from some YouTubers with other creators such as Casey Neistat onboard promoting Team Trees to help him reach his goal. As of the time of writing, the YouTube star has already raised enough money to plant over 1.5 million trees only two days after he announced the initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MrBeast responds to bizarre criticism of his tree planting project YouTube star Jimmy \u2018MrBeast\u2019 Donaldson has responded to criticism after announcing the Team Trees fundraiser on October 25 which plans to plant 20 million trees. Many of YouTube\u2019s biggest content creators have rallied in support of MrBeast after he announced that he would be starting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}