Team Trees and Sea

                                                           Combating climate change 

Team Seas 

Hello everyone my name is Jake Uetz and today I'll be talking about two organizations that tried to make a difference and help put an end to climate change. These two groups are Team Seas and Team Trees.

Teams Seas was an international collaborative fundraiser campaign launched by 2 YouTubers MrBeast and Mark Rober. Their goal was simple to remove trash from the oceans rivers and beaches. The project's goal aimed to remove 30 million pounds of trash by raising 30 million dollars. The model was straightforward for everyone one dollar donated 1 pound of trash was removed from the sea. The project was a massive success with over 400.000 YouTubers collaborating with Team Seas their goal of 30 million dollars was passed meeting a record of 34 million pounds of trash removed from the sea. during this fundraiser 2 major organizations worked to make this goal a reality Ocean conservation and The Ocean clean up these two organizations split the donations and worked to remove trash from the sea rivers and oceans.  Mr Beast and mark Rober started teams seas because they understood how polluted our seas rivers and oceans were and they had the power to do something about it. They knew with their massive social popularity they could get the word out about Team Seas. Now with everything about climate change seeming to be bad news, this was something that gave me hope for the future even though team seas was done all the way back in 2021 there are organizations still continuing to try and make our planet a healthy place. As we have seen with the 34 million dollar donations people want to help make climate change go away and if you are someone who wants to do something even a little then donations to team seas is still ongoing as well as other organizations for cleaning up the seas specifically. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXDx6DjNLDU) here is the thought process and way one of the founders of Team Seas Mark Rober went about Team Seas. 

Now as amazing as Team Seas was this was actually the second major climate change project Mr beast and Mark Rober worked on their first-ever project was called Team Trees 

Team Trees was a collaborative fundraising campaign launched in October 2019 to plant 20 million trees. This idea began when a fan challenged Mr Beast to plant 20 million trees to celebrate 20 million YouTube subscribers   

Key Details 

Goal Raise $20 million to plant 20 million trees 

Partners: Arbor Day Foundation 

Donation model $1 per tree planted 

Participants Over 800,000 people 

The Campaign was a success it raised over 22 million and planted trees across six continents. The environmental impact was significant with an estimated 23 million trees covering 210 km of land and Potential to absorb around 1.6 million tons of carbon. Removal of 116,000 tons of atmospheric pollutants. The project was completed by December 2022, planting trees in 30 countries and 11 U.S. states including areas affected by wildfires and regions needing reforestation. The main reason team trees are so important is because trees are one of the main things that significantly impact climate change trees play a crucial role in mitigating climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through photosynthesis. A mature tree can absorb approximately half a metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent in one year. 

Links to teams' seas and trees

https://teamseas.org/

https://teamtrees.org/