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ECO-DESTRUCTION ENCOURAGED
Age reader Raymond Kenyon, of leafy East Malvern:
For every tree cut down, two or 10 more should be planted. Imagine $30 million spent on a planting program. Now that’s money well spent on our future.
Our future of deadly warming, that is! At least the Prime Minister’s brother is helping rescue the planet.
UPDATE. Mark from Monroe in comments: “Treacherous barky bastard trees. Watched them from the warmth of my eco-friendly diesel train this morning here in NY. Sure, in winter they look all sad, aged arched fingers beseeching the sun. But they just can’t wait till spring when they start spewing their murderous poison gas. Naz-Trees, I call ‘em.”
4. TimT. Almost. Some live in nearby Glen Iris.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 01 13 at 06:36 AM • permalinkSlatts, I would have thought that planting a tree was doing just that.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 01 13 at 06:37 AM • permalinkRayment musty be all of ten years old. He’s never heard of a decades-old concept called ‘re-aforrestation’ or Men of the Trees.
And Kew - Kew is a big The Age area (all those private schools).
Posted by walterplinge on 2006 01 13 at 07:11 AM • permalinkTreacherous barky bastard trees. Watched them from the warmth of my eco-friendly diesel train this morning here in NY. Sure, in winter they look all sad, aged arched fingers beseeching the sun. But they just can’t wait till spring when they start spewing their murderous poison gas. Naz-Trees, I call ‘em.
Posted by Monroe Doctrine on 2006 01 13 at 10:42 AM • permalinkReckon I can plant a tree but how the hell do I “enhance the visual interface”.
Light it.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 01 13 at 11:39 AM • permalink#12: Richard’s comment puts me in mind of how dangerous certain trees can be. I read somewhere - and this may be somebody telling a whopper, but it sounded serious - that the melaleuca tree (is that how you spell it?), which I think is native to Australia, contains so much oil in its leaves that when one of the things catches fire the crown can actually explode.
Meanwhile down and out in Melbourne Connie of Lygon Street is complaining about the trees polen and wants the City of Melbourne to remove all 150 Plain Trees from the leafy inner suburban Lygon Street in Carlton.
Original Story in Melbourne’s Herald Sun
The Other Cheek, Andrew Landeryou, goes on attack defending the trees with this piece
#18 - Melbourne environmentalists have been whingeing about our London Planes for at least 3 decades. They’re foreign, that is, weeds. There was a push a couple of decades back to uproot and replace them with eucalypts until those with a grain of commonsense pointed out that eucalypts will drop limbs on cars and pedestrians and also suck the water out of the soil leading to even worse cracking and subsidence that presently exists in Carlton.
Posted by walterplinge on 2006 01 13 at 11:14 PM • permalinkBragging rights….I have two, count them, chainsaws.
Poor bastard starved to death halfway between two old-growth trees…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 01 14 at 09:58 PM • permalink
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