All it took was one for Elon Musk to🔯 donate $1 million dollars to plant a million trees, blowing all other donations at the time out of the water and earning him the name "Treelon."
is a campaign created on October 25, 2019, by YouTuber and YouTuber and former NASA engineer in partnership with the to plant 20 million trees by January 1, 2020. For every dollar donated, one tree will get planted somewhe💟re in the world before December of 2022. The goal is to plant the trees in strategic areas around the globe, based on the type of tree and the climate in the area it needs to be planted, in order to combat growing environmental concerns.
On October 25, MrBeast posted a video on YouTube announcing the fundraiser, which now has over 28 million views at the time this ar♌ticle was written. Starting as a challenge from his fans for reaching 20 million subscribers on YouTube, MrBeast realized that planting 20 million trees by himself was an impossible task, so he reached out to th𝔍e internet and the Arbor Day Foundation to help.
Unsurprisingly, the community rallied behind this initiative, and YouTubers such as TheOdd1sOut, JaidenAnimations, Arin Hanson, and jacksepticeye made some sizable donations. CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey joined in on the fun with his large donation of 150,000 trees, and CEO🀅 of YouTube Susa🧔n Wojcicki donated 200,000 trees and about the project.
At the time of this posting, #TeamTrees ha🀅s had over 10 million trees donated, more than halfway to their stretch goal.
By October 28, #TeamTrees had made enough noise on Twitter that Elon Musk started to question what was going on. In response to MrBeast's retweet about 6 million trees planted, he , "Sounds cool. Where are the trees being planted & what kind of trees?" Marques Bܫrownlee, a renowned tech YouTuber, answered him and gave him all the , and the next day, Elon Musk contributed 1 million trees and went by "Treelon" on his Twitter profile.
Tobias Lütke, CEO of Shopify, decided to 1Up Musk and for the campaign, knocking him out of first and crowning himself our new tree overlord, "Tobi Lorax" after The Lorax, a children's book by Dr. Seuss.
In this battle royale for a good cause, who will ☂end up on top? With a few months to go, there༺ is plenty of time to donate before the new year.
You can donate to #TeaඣmTrees before January 1, 2020 by visiting the website .
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