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BoilerplaterThe choice of a monoculture of Gingko reminds me of the over-use of the American Elm in this country and how that fostered the spread of Dutch Elm Disease. Apparently that lesson has been lost, or just not understood and heeded by mayors with delusions of grandeur.
The US has done such large-scale plantings in the past. Remember the Dust Bowl? Well, not in person, but from your history classes? After that large-scale soil relocation, the CCC planted a wide band of trees as a kind of shelter belt that was supposed to extend from the Canadian border down to Texas. Not sure how far they got though.