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- [MrBeast] You guys spammed me to plant 20 million trees

on Twitter, Reddit, all over my comment section.

So I made it happen.

Today, we will be planting 20 million trees.

And we put ’em in the hole.

Now we need mulch.

Put the mulch around the tree,

and we hydrate it.

And there we go. (bell dings)

And again.

Hole, tree, mulch, water.

And before we go any further, this is Sarah.

She’s a tree planting expert.

Will this tree grow to be big and healthy?

• I’m gonna look and see if I can pull on it

and it doesn’t pull out of the planting hole.

(triumphant jingle) So good job there.

• Only 19,999,980 more trees.

Let’s go!

(all cheer) Yeah!

• Oh yeah.

• Sturdy?

• Oh, very sturdy. (bell dings)

• You could tug on this with a rope

and it wouldn’t come out. (bell dings)

• Chris, I need help. Can you massage my tree for me?

• Massage your tree?

• I can’t get it out of this pot.

• Dude, it’s like rock solid in here.

There you go. (bell dings)

• So talking to trees makes them grow faster?

• Huh?

• Grow! What do you want the planet to die, come on.

• Grow.

• Can you grow!

• Do you see the sky? It’s so beautiful.

• You’re gonna be a house for birds and stuff.

(hands whacking)

• You got toughen these trees up.

Look at this. No movement.

So the reason we’re spacing the trees eight feet apart,

is so the roots have to grow out

and they don’t have to compete.

• It’s kind of weird to put mulch around a growing tree,

‘cause it’s grinding up all of its relatives,

and spreading it around them.

• Bro.

(upbeat music)

• All right, well, it’s started to rain.

At least now we don’t have to water the trees.

No, but seriously, we wanna plant 20 million trees

and a little bit of rain never hurt anyone.

• If a tree falls in the woods,

and no one’s around to hear it, does it make noise?

Yes. It’s still a tree.

• [Cameraman] Plant a tree in the middle of the forest-

• Hold on, I’ve gotta do something important.

• Oh okay. Timber! (explodes)

• Why are you mad?

• What is this?

(bells dings)

• It’s a hole.

• With a tree in it.

• Look at this tree!

Look. (jeans squelching)

You see that?

(man screaming)

(upbeat music)

• After planting all day,

we only managed to plant 300 trees.

• Which is less than 20 million and my back hurts.

• I put out a tweet and I have tons of people

coming here tomorrow to plant trees.

• I think I’ve got an idea for a drone.

• So I haven’t mentioned this yet, but this is Mark Rober.

This is his channel.

He used to work at NASA, he put this thing on Mars.

He does a lot of cool things.

He’s gonna try with the drone,

and we’re gonna try with people.

• Play to your strengths.

• May the, the… alright.

It’s day number two and we brought a lot more people.

(crowd cheering)

And now we’re gonna try to plant the 20 million trees.

So step one is we need to give everyone their tree.

• Can I have a fist bump?

• Yes.

• Oh my God.

• Here’s your tree.

• I shall name him Russell.

• Russell.

• Look at all these people.

We’re easily gonna hit 20 million.

(electronic upbeat tune)

And now it’s time to begin.

Let’s plant the trees.

(crowd cheering) Unless you’re him.

He already planted it.

• You’re doing great.
• Great, good job.

Do you need help?

• If you would like to help, go for it.

• Dig right here, seems like the best spot.

• The hole’s too big.

(dramatic music)

• Tree review. (rock music)

See the tug test?

You don’t want any oxygen in the root system

or the tree won’t survive.

What are these people doing?

That’s a solid tree.

• That’s a solid boy?

• That’s a solid tree.

• Okay, good.

• That’s great.

Whoever planted that, amazing.

(upbeat music)

Make sure you want to do a donut.

Can I believe in you? (bell dings)

Thank you so much for helping us do this, by the way.

How’d you hear about this?

• Oh, I saw the tweet. Had to hop in.

• Ooh. Not bad.

• Fits well, I like it.

Thanks for helping with my tree, man.

• Of course.

• Appreciate it.

• Nice to meet you.

• Nice to meet you as well.

• I was honestly like, I have to do this.

This is a once in a lifetime opportunity.

• We’re gonna get to the 20 mill, right?

• Oh 100%. No doubt.

• Alright, cool.

• Thank you.

• Interview conducted.

Look at all these people.

Let’s do a tree test.

The way you know if they did a good job

is if you can pull on it, and that one you can pull on.

• You’re killing it.

• Thank you.

• [Cameraman] How many trees have you planted so far today?

• I have dug 473 holes.

• Really?

• Yes.

• How many did you dig?

• Oh my goodness.

• Hey you, digging.

• Bro, how’s it going?

• I don’t know. How’s it going?

• It’s good. It’s good.

• Yeah?

• It’s pretty fun to plant some trees.

• It is pretty fun to plant some trees.

• You know.

• You know.

• Earth does a lot.

• Earth does do a lot.

(upbeat music) (bell dinging)

• Do a little tug test. Oh, she’s nice.

Oh, she’s nice.

We just need some-

• There we go.

• That’s a good tree, man.

• Good job Chris.

• Dude, thanks.

• Got ’em!

• There we go.

• He gets a high five, you know, whatever.

• The last tree.

• Thanks Chandler.

• As you can see, there are a ton of trees here.

Now, we actually grabbed a drone shot beforehand.

So here’s the drone shot of the empty field.

Look at it. It’s empty.

And here’s the drone shot now. Is that a lot of extra trees?

• Yes, it’s quite extra.

We had to. Yeah.

• Cool.

Unfortunately, despite having a large number of people,

we came nowhere near close to planting 20 million trees.

But I don’t wanna let you guys down.

So I devised a plan

where we can actually plant 20 million trees,

but I need your help.

We partnered with the largest nonprofit

tree planting organization in the world, Arbor Day.

But we need your help.

Every dollar donated, they will plant a tree. Watch.

Here’s a dollar and I donated it.

• Another dollar, another tree.

• Here’s $10 and I just donated it.

(bell dings)

This is $30 and guess what happens when I donate it?

(bell dings)

Even Chandler can do it.

• Another one.

Another one.

• Yep.

• And another one.

• Arbor Day and their partners are the pros.

They’ve planted hundreds of millions of trees,

they’ll make sure they have a high rate of survivability

and they genuinely do care.

If you donate a dollar,

something like this ends up in the ground.

And given enough time, this will turn into this masterpiece.

Now one thing I want to address.

I personally haven’t always been

the most environmentally friendly.

We’ve burnt the box for it

and we’ve done many other dumb things.

And a lot of you might be of the mindset of the old me.

That was basically someone else will figure it out.

But that’s not how it works.

We genuinely need all the help we can get.

And honestly, I’ve done everything I can.

I got a bunch of fans together

and we planted thousands of trees.

Me and mark have invested months of time behind the scenes

into getting this all together.

And I’m personally planting a hundred thousand trees,

AKA a hundred thousand dollars donation.

I’ve literally tried my best to do everything I can.

And now it’s your guys’ turn.

You guys have been spamming my comment section

and spamming my mentions on Twitter

telling me to do something.

And now I wanna see that same energy.

We only have one earth

and it’s important we take care of it.

Recently, lots of not so great things

have been happening to forests

and people just keep making fun of our generation

for retweet activism and not actually doing something.

Which is why we created teamtrees.org

with the help of the Arbor Day Foundation.

This is your chance to make a difference.

For every dollar you donate here on YouTube

or at teamtrees.org, a tree will be planted.

And the Arbor Day Foundation

are really good at what they do.

These trees will have

an extremely high rate of survivability.

Please donate now.

Don’t push it off till later, you might forget.

This is our chance to show the world we care.

Teamtrees.org, donate there

or donate using the donate button below the video.

Thank you.

(bell dinging)

(bomb exploding)

(man screaming) (bell dinging)