00:00You guys spammed me to plant 20 million trees on Twitter, Reddit, all over my comment section, so I made it happen.
00:06Today, we will be planting 20 million trees, and we put them in the hole, now we need mulch, put the mulch around the tree, and we hydrate it, and there we go.
00:19And again, hole, tree, mulch, water.
00:23And before we go any further, this is Sarah, she's a tree planting expert.
00:27Will this tree grow to be big and healthy?
00:30I'm gonna look and see if I can pull on it, and it doesn't pull out of the planting hole.
00:35So good job there.
00:36Only 19,999,980 more trees, let's go!
00:42Yeah!
00:43Oh yeah.
00:43Sturdy.
00:44Oh, very sturdy.
00:45Dude, you could tug on this with a rope, and it wouldn't come out.
00:48Chris, I need help.
00:50Can you massage my tree for me?
00:51Massage your tree?
00:53I can't get it out of this pot.
00:54Dude, it's like rock solid in here.
00:57There you go.
00:58So talking to trees makes them grow faster?
01:01Huh?
01:02Bro, what do you want, the planet to die?
01:04Come on.
01:05Bro, you see the sky?
01:06You gotta be a house plant.
01:08I believe you.
01:10You gotta toughen these trees up.
01:13Look at this.
01:13No movement.
01:14So the reason we're spacing the trees 8 feet apart is so the roots have to grow out and they don't have to compete.
01:19It's kind of weird to put mulch around a growing tree.
01:22It's like grinding up all of its relatives and spreading it around them.
01:27Bro.
01:30All right, well, it started to rain.
01:32At least now we don't have to water the trees.
01:34No, but seriously, we want to plant 20 million trees and a little bit of rain never hurt anyone.
01:39The tree falls in the woods.
01:41No one's around to hear it.
01:42It doesn't make noise.
01:43Yes, still a tree.
01:44Plant a tree in the middle of the forest.
01:45Hold on, I've got to do something important.
01:47Timber!
01:48Why are you mad?
01:51What is this?
01:53It's a hole.
01:54With a tree in it.
01:55Look at this tree.
01:56What is this, Chris?
01:58Can you see that?
01:59Can you see it?
02:05After planting all day, we only managed to plant 300 trees.
02:09Which is less than 20 million and my back hurts.
02:11I put out a tweet and I have tons of people coming here tomorrow to plant trees.
02:14I think I've got an idea for a drone.
02:16So I haven't mentioned this yet, but this is Mark Rober.
02:18This is his channel.
02:19He used to work at NASA.
02:20He put this thing on Mars.
02:21He does a lot of cool things.
02:22So he's going to try with a drone and we're going to try it with people.
02:25Play to your strengths.
02:28It's day number two and we brought a lot more people.
02:32And now we're going to try to plant the 20 million trees.
02:34So step one is we need to give everyone their tree.
02:37Do you have a fist bump?
02:38Yes.
02:39Oh my god.
02:40I shall name him Russell.
02:41Russell.
02:42Look at all these people.
02:43We're easily going to hit 20 million.
02:47And now it's time to begin.
02:49Let's plant the trees!
02:51Blesser him.
02:52He already planted it.
02:53You're doing great.
02:54You're doing great.
02:55Great.
02:56Good job.
02:57Do you need help?
02:58If you would like to help, go for it.
02:59Yes.
03:00I think right here seems like the best spot.
03:01The hole's too big.
03:04Tree review.
03:07See the tug test?
03:09You don't want any oxygen in the root system or the tree won't survive.
03:12What are these people doing?
03:14That's a solid tree.
03:15That's a solid boy?
03:16That's a solid tree.
03:17Okay, good.
03:18That's great.
03:19Whoever planted that, amazing.
03:24Make sure you want to do a donut.
03:26I believe in you.
03:27Thank you so much for helping us do this, by the way.
03:29How'd you hear about this?
03:30Oh, I saw the tweet.
03:31I had to hop in.
03:32Ooh, not bad.
03:33Fits well.
03:34I like it.
03:35Thanks for helping me with my tree, man.
03:36Of course.
03:37Appreciate it.
03:38Nice to meet you.
03:39Nice to meet you as well.
03:40I was honestly like, I have to do this.
03:41This is a once in a lifetime opportunity.
03:42We're going to get to the 20 mil, right?
03:43Oh, 100%.
03:44No doubt.
03:45Cool.
03:46All right.
03:47Thank you.
03:48Interview conducted.
03:49Look at all these people.
03:50Let's do a tree test.
03:51The way you know if they did a good job.
03:52You're killing it.
03:53Thank you.
03:54How many trees have you planted so far today?
03:55I have dug 473 holes.
03:56Really?
03:57Yes.
03:58How many did you do?
03:59Hey, you.
04:00Digging.
04:01How's it going?
04:02I don't know.
04:03How's it going?
04:04It's good.
04:05It's good.
04:06It's pretty fun to plant some trees.
04:07It is pretty fun to plant some trees.
04:08You know?
04:09You know.
04:10Earth does a lot.
04:11Earth does do a lot.
04:12All right.
04:13Let's do a tree test.
04:14Let's do a tree test.
04:15The way you know if they did a good job is if you can pull on it, and that one you can
04:16pull on.
04:17You're killing it.
04:18Thank you.
04:19How many trees have you planted so far today?
04:20Let's do a little tug test.
04:21Oh, she's nice.
04:22There you go.
04:23Oh, she's nice.
04:24We just need some more.
04:25That's a good tree, man.
04:26Good job, Chris.
04:27Dude, thanks.
04:28Got him.
04:29There we go.
04:30He gets a high five, you know, whatever.
04:31The last tree.
04:32Thanks, Chandler.
04:33As you can see, there are a ton of trees here.
04:34Now, we actually grabbed a drone shot beforehand.
04:35So here's the drone shot of the empty field.
04:36Look at it.
04:37It's empty.
04:38And here's the drone shot now.
04:39Is that a lot of extra trees?
04:40Yes, it's quite a lot.
04:41It's a lot of trees.
04:42It's a lot of trees.
04:43It's a lot of trees.
04:44It's a lot of trees.
04:45It's empty.
04:46It's empty.
04:47It's empty.
04:48And here's the drone shot now.
04:49Is that a lot of extra trees?
04:50Yes, it's quite extra.
04:51We had to...
04:52Yeah.
04:53Cool.
04:57Unfortunately, despite having a large number of people, we came nowhere near close to planting
05:0120 million trees.
05:02But I don't want to let you guys down, so I devised a plan where we can actually plant
05:0620 million trees.
05:08But I need your help.
05:09We partnered with the largest non-profit tree planting organization in the world, Arbor
05:14Day.
05:15And we need your help.
05:16Every dollar donated, they will plant a tree.
05:18Watch.
05:19Here's a dollar.
05:20And I donated it.
05:21Another dollar.
05:22Another tree.
05:24Here's $10.
05:25And I just donated it.
05:28This is $30.
05:29And guess what happens when I donate it.
05:33Even Chandler can do it.
05:35Another one.
05:37Another one.
05:39Yep.
05:40And another one.
05:41Arbor Day and their partners are the pros.
05:42They've planted hundreds of millions of trees.
05:44They'll make sure they have a high rate of survivability and they genuinely do care.
05:47If you donate a dollar, something like this ends up in the ground.
05:51And given enough time, this will turn into this masterpiece.
05:54Now one thing I want to address.
05:56I personally haven't always been the most environmentally friendly.
05:58We've burnt a box for it and we've done many other dumb things.
06:01And a lot of you might be of the mindset of the old me that was basically, you know, someone
06:05else will figure it out.
06:06But that's not how it works.
06:07We genuinely need all the help we can get.
06:09And honestly, I've done everything I can.
06:10I got a bunch of fans together and we planted thousands of trees.
06:13Me and Mark have invested months of time behind the scenes into getting this all together.
06:17And I'm personally planting 100,000 trees, aka a $100,000 donation.
06:21I've literally tried my best to do everything I can.
06:24And now it's your guys' turn.
06:26You guys have been spamming my comment section and spamming my mentions on Twitter telling
06:29me to do something.
06:31And now I want to see that same energy.
06:33We only have one Earth and it's important we take care of it.
06:36Recently, lots of not so great things have been happening to forests and people just
06:40keep making fun of our generation for retweet activism and not actually doing something.
06:44Which is why we created teamtrees.org with the help of the Arbor Day Foundation.
06:48This is your chance to make a difference.
06:50For every dollar you donate here on YouTube or at teamtrees.org, a tree will be planted.
06:55And the Arbor Day Foundation are really good at what they do.
06:58These trees will have an extremely high rate of survivability.
07:01Please donate now.
07:02Don't push it off till later.
07:03You might forget.
07:04This is our chance to show the world we care.
07:06teamtrees.org, donate there, or donate using the donate button below the video.
