Giving Compass' Take:

• Here, Global Citizen talks about a novel way to respond to frustration over a lackluster political response to environmental issues: paying for trees planted for every time President Trump tweets inaccurate information about climate change. 

• How is this response (via the nonprofit Treepex) building momentum for other movements to address climate change? Is it just a gimmick — or could it spark a broader dialogue around the cause?

• Read more on the Trump administration and climate politics. 

For anyone frustrated with U.S. President Donald Trump’s approach to climate change, the environmental nonprofit Treepex created a digital release valve.

A new program called Treespond features some of Trump’s most infamous anti-environmental tweets and instead of the usual options for responding, liking, and retweeting, people can choose to “Treespond” by paying for trees to be planted.

Each tweet has a set number of trees assigned to it for people to buy, and it’s set up like a game. Treepex encourages people to “eliminate every ignorant quote about environmental issues by planting across national forests of California devastated by wildfire.”

By converting Trump’s anti-environmental statements into trees, Treepex is able to boost morale among environmental advocates and build momentum for a future time when the U.S. once again adheres to the Paris climate agreement.

Read the full article about Treesponding to tweets by Joe McCarthy and Erica Sanchez at Global Citizen.