The Environment Is Saved! We're Putting Trees on the Blockchain

Thank you for good news, everyone. Thanks to an ingenious plot, climate change is now controlled.

We're obviously joking, but there's one suggestion that seems to be serious.

At a Manhattan community board meeting, someone asked the board if they'd considered tokenizing the trees, and Futurism's attention was drawn to it.

The idea is to put individual trees on the block, which would be good for the environment. The board members were confused by the suggestion.

One board member wanted to know what tokenizing the trees meant.

Each tree is able to raise a couple hundred dollars per year with each tree being able to record "the tree's data" and use it to "monetize the trees."

The board member who asked about the definition laughingly admitted that they had never heard of tokenizing trees, and that if the board were to do something with the concept, it would be their first venture into the block chain.

It appears that this person is not the first to suggest the idea of tokenized trees, though it appears to be a pretty niche concept mostly discussed by the Chinese.

You are not alone if the whole thing strikes you as absurd or the work of a very tongue-in- cheek troll. Dozens of people said that the project is deeply evil and that NFT people need to touch grass.

One asked if this thing jumped the shark.

It's not clear if carbon-offsetting works. It seems like it's time to put nature on the platform.

The art was sold as NFTs.