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To add insult to injury, we're also destroying the trees in the cities and along roads, and people are quite happy with that. I've literally had conversations t

To add insult to injury, we're also destroying the trees in the cities and along roads, and people are quite happy with that. I've literally had conversations that went like "Why do we need all these for? You have a drink or two, crash into a tree and die. They should cut all of them". For some context, Romania has about the highest road fatalities per capita in the EU.

vladvasiliu 5y ago
That sounds like a different issue. They wanted to cut the trees along the roads in France too for similar. They wanted to remove the trees up to a certain distance which I can't remember. The issue is that whole forests are being removed. If they weren't, removing a bunch of trees along the roads for safety wouldn't make that big of a difference. But trees in cities is a different beast, though, and I think it's criminal to remove those, especially in Romania where, thanks communism, there aren't that many trees to begin with.
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- GrayShade 5y ago
  I don't think the cities were in such a bad place before the Revolution, this is a more recent thing. They "prune" the trees by cutting pretty much every branch, then a couple of years down the road they cut them off because they've died. I've seen this happen many times. You're right, of course, those in forests and those in the cities bring different benefits, but most people don't seem to care enough about either.
- petre 5y ago
  There was more illegal deforestation after '90 because the commies would have thrown perpetrators in jail without appeal. After the communist regime fell, new black market deals were struck with corrupt forest rangers, logging mafias were formed, forests in the country of Harghita and elsewhere were cut down. There was even one policitian named Attila Verestoy¹ who was nicknamed the chainsaw of god (a pun on Attila the hun's nickname) specifically because he was part of the Harghita logging mafia and has facilitated illegal deforestation. His and other logging kings' legacy lives on. There you have it. 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attila_Verest%C3%B3y https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attila_Verest%C3%B3y

vladvasiliu 5y ago

That sounds like a different issue. They wanted to cut the trees along the roads in France too for similar. They wanted to remove the trees up to a certain distance which I can't remember. The issue is that whole forests are being removed. If they weren't, removing a bunch of trees along the roads for safety wouldn't make that big of a difference. But trees in cities is a different beast, though, and I think it's criminal to remove those, especially in Romania where, thanks communism, there aren't that many trees to begin with.

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GrayShade 5y ago
I don't think the cities were in such a bad place before the Revolution, this is a more recent thing. They "prune" the trees by cutting pretty much every branch, then a couple of years down the road they cut them off because they've died. I've seen this happen many times. You're right, of course, those in forests and those in the cities bring different benefits, but most people don't seem to care enough about either.
petre 5y ago
There was more illegal deforestation after '90 because the commies would have thrown perpetrators in jail without appeal. After the communist regime fell, new black market deals were struck with corrupt forest rangers, logging mafias were formed, forests in the country of Harghita and elsewhere were cut down. There was even one policitian named Attila Verestoy¹ who was nicknamed the chainsaw of god (a pun on Attila the hun's nickname) specifically because he was part of the Harghita logging mafia and has facilitated illegal deforestation. His and other logging kings' legacy lives on. There you have it. 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attila_Verest%C3%B3y https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attila_Verest%C3%B3y