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Environmental Wacko Letter to Editor
Reading (Pa.) Eagle | Dec. 15, 2004

Posted on 12/15/2004 6:25:45 AM PST by Russ

Find alternative to cutting trees

Editor:

When I saw the article headline “No need to take a bow for switch to using alternative Christmas tree” in the Dec. 8 edition of the Reading Eagle, I thought I would read about an alternative to cutting live trees. Instead, the article extolled the qualities of an open-branched live tree which could display more ornaments than the machine-sheared variety.

At a time when increasing numbers of us bemoan the loss of beautiful trees, this season still represents the wholesale slaughter of many millions of them. People who buy live cut trees rave about how wonderful they smell. In fact, that smell is the aroma of a magnificent living thing in its death throes.

Decorating live balled trees that can be planted later is an alternative to killing trees. If that it not possible, opting for an artificial one would save a live tree, provide a reusable and realistic tree year after year and go a long way toward fire safety.

Public officials and corporate leaders could plant trees permanently for yearly decoration.

Here's hoping some enlightened president will put an end to the yearly slaughter of magnificent trees for display inside and outside the White House.

If the example starts at the top, perhaps the notion will take hold with others as well.

Amy White Berger Wyomissing


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KEYWORDS: christmas; environment; environmentalwacko; humor
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This letter appeared this morning in our local paper. It is further proof that liberals (and especially environmental wackos) are having a mental melt-down.
1 posted on 12/15/2004 6:25:46 AM PST by Russ
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Don't they realize that these trees are grown ONLY for this purpose, to be cut down and sold at Christmas? Dingbat.


2 posted on 12/15/2004 6:26:48 AM PST by Marysecretary (Thank you, Lord, for FOUR MORE YEARS!!!)
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To: Russ
At a time when increasing numbers of us bemoan the loss of beautiful trees, this season still represents the wholesale slaughter of many millions of them.

Oh, the horror. There are more trees in North America now than there were when the Pilgrims landed.

3 posted on 12/15/2004 6:27:52 AM PST by tx_eggman ("All I need to know about Islam I learned on 09/11/01" - Crawdad)
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To: Russ

I can also hear the grass cry when I walk on it. /sarcasm


4 posted on 12/15/2004 6:29:00 AM PST by In veno, veritas
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To: Russ

If these people care, they should offer themselves up as living Christmas trees. Stand out in my yard from Thanksgiving to New Years decorated with lights, ornaments and tinsel.

Ordinarily, I'd have the Christmas tree in the house, but y'all don't exactly have a fresh pine scent.


5 posted on 12/15/2004 6:29:44 AM PST by VisualizeSmallerGovernment (Question Liberal Authority)
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To: Marysecretary
Don't they realize that these trees are grown ONLY for this purpose, to be cut down and sold at Christmas?

So this person is against the cultivation and harvesting of crops? I wonder if they feel that way about the billions of soybeans that are slaughtered each day to make tofu. Or the gazillion martyred marijana plants.

6 posted on 12/15/2004 6:31:17 AM PST by VisualizeSmallerGovernment (Question Liberal Authority)
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To: Russ

This is getting out of hand. And I suppose she never has freshly cut flowers in her home? Or she never eats vegetables. Or drinks wine? Or uses aloe moisturizer? Or Uses shampoo with botanical extracts? Or adds herbs to her recipes? Or takes medicine?


7 posted on 12/15/2004 6:33:27 AM PST by cwiz24 (Hey Democrats---Now who's ya daddy?)
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Hypocrite!!! This so-called environmentalist wrote a letter to the editor, thereby condoning the killing of trees to print newspapers with said letters in them!! YOU TREE MURDERER!!!! REPENT!!! PLANT 30 TREES AND PRAY TO THE SIERRA CLUB FOR FORGIVENESS!!!!


8 posted on 12/15/2004 6:36:20 AM PST by TheRatHunter
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Ahh yes, they don't want anything harmed that appeals to their aesthetic sensibilities. Yet I'm sure an envirowack has to eat, so how does such a "morally superior" person survive? They didn't commit planticide for their meal did they? They're a veritable Hitler!


9 posted on 12/15/2004 6:37:22 AM PST by Brett66 (W1 W1 W1 W1 W1 W1 W1 W1)
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To: tx_eggman
There are more trees in North America now than there were when the Pilgrims landed.
That's a bit overstated. Old growth virgin forests - by definition - have fewer trees per acre then far younger forests with many more smaller trees.
10 posted on 12/15/2004 6:37:42 AM PST by bikepacker67 ("This is the best election night in history." -- DNC chairman Terry McAuliffe 11/2/04 8pm)
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To: Russ
Public officials and corporate leaders could plant trees permanently for yearly decoration.

Can't. That's violating the separation of church and state and company policy if they're for "X"-mas trees. (/sarcasm)

11 posted on 12/15/2004 6:38:02 AM PST by elbucko (Feral Republican)
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Speaking as someone in the field of Forestry. I can say that on average, for every tree cut down, seven more are planted in its place.


12 posted on 12/15/2004 6:44:54 AM PST by waiyu
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To: Russ
If that it not possible, opting for an artificial one would save a live tree, provide a reusable and realistic tree year after year and go a long way toward fire safety.

And what about all the non-renewable natural resources used and pollution discharged, needed to produce that artificial tree???? Didn't we learn that it is best to use renewable resources, ie trees?? It's common sense.

13 posted on 12/15/2004 6:47:23 AM PST by GreenFreeper
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To: cwiz24

Do they ever mow their lawns? Don't they know how many insects they kill doing that!


14 posted on 12/15/2004 6:57:00 AM PST by liberateUS
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To: Russ

I have been a Christmas Tree grower for 24 years. We have have planted and harvested thousands of trees. Always replanting, either spot or the whole field. At full load, my 15 acre fields hold around 17k trees. That increased density means more CO2 converted to O2. Sheesh, you'd think that was enough.


15 posted on 12/15/2004 6:57:39 AM PST by W.Lee
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To: Russ
A clear case of nuttiness and wasted time on the part of Amy White Berger Whatamimissing
16 posted on 12/15/2004 7:01:28 AM PST by Tread
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To: bikepacker67

'old growth virgin forests' is a bit overstated... trees have a life span... forests are never old growth they are always growing through stages.... trees die new ones sprout...

i know the point you were trying to make, but your premise is structured on a straw man argument, that trees live forever... younger trees are better at doing what trees do than older trees...

such is life.

teeman



17 posted on 12/15/2004 7:02:03 AM PST by teeman8r
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To: W.Lee
I wonder if she is a vegetarian... wouldn't that make her a hypocrite?
18 posted on 12/15/2004 7:02:34 AM PST by GreenFreeper
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To: tx_eggman

Oh, the horror. There are more trees in North America now than there were when the Pilgrims landed.

Oh, the huma...never mind!


19 posted on 12/15/2004 7:03:09 AM PST by Tread
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You should write a reply and remind her that one of the biggest threats to forestation is not commercial tree farms but over population of whitetailed deer. Perhaps Amy would like to accompany you on a hunt and be an example of forest preservation.


20 posted on 12/15/2004 7:06:33 AM PST by groanup (Rats are afraid of the light so spread a little sunshine.)
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