#TeamTrees: the amazing challenge taken on by YouTubers from around the world

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"It could be one of the craziest things on YouTube"  Raising 20 million dollars to plant 20 million trees before the end of the year. That's the tough challenge these 600 YouTubers from around the world are taking on.

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00:00Oh, hi Mark. Hey Zach. We've got a dollar for you. Oh, okay

00:04So you're gonna take the dollar put in some dirt and then pull it. Oh, you get a tree

00:21Today we will be planting 20 million trees. That's just an insane goal, especially when you only have two short months to pull it off

00:30And we decided if we were actually going to plant 20 million trees by 2020, we would need to bring the entire YouTube community together on this

00:50And we decided if we were actually gonna plant 20 million trees by 2020, we would need to bring the entire YouTube community together on this

01:00And we decided if we were actually gonna plant 20 million trees by 2020, we would need to bring the entire YouTube community together on this

01:16I personally will be planting 50,000 trees by donating $50,000. I'm stoked. Let's plant some trees

01:22It could be one of the craziest things that YouTube has ever seen. Just so many people. We could end up with too many trees

01:2720 million trees. I am so angry. I will plant at least a couple of trees

01:32The reason I'm most excited about this is it feels like the end of Power Rangers when they would all assemble into the big thing

01:38And fight stuff together and do good

01:57Arbor Day and their partners are the pros. They've planted hundreds of millions of trees

02:13They'll make sure they have a high rate of survivability and they genuinely do care

02:17If you donate a dollar something like this ends up in the ground and given enough time this will turn into this masterpiece

02:27And it's important to note with regards to Team Trees that 20 million trees by 2020 isn't going to cure climate change

02:42But it's a step in the right direction and a constructive positive way to send the message that we see the science and we care

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