Absolutely. I study ecology, and I have to say this article sounds like quite a lot of hogwash to me. Of course, trees do communicate - but obsessively trying

Absolutely. I study ecology, and I have to say this article sounds like quite a lot of hogwash to me. Of course, trees do communicate - but obsessively trying to frame mindless chemical ecological processes in such extreme anthropomorphic terms is dangerously close to the border between extreme oversimplification and rank pseudoscience.