To Feel Less Heat We Need More Trees

By Ben Jealous 
All of us suffered last week through day after day of the hottest average temperatures ever recorded on Earth. Now imagine it had been 10 percent hotter where you live.
That wasn’t hard to do for residents in urban neighborhoods where pavement, concrete and glass far surpass leafy trees. The people who live there pay a heat tax through their health and their economic well-being.
Roughly 80 percent of Americans live in urban areas and roughly 80 percent of those city dw