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So? It's just a tree, why should we care about it just because a random person planted a seed a hundred years ago?
by colesantiago 3y ago
So?
It's just a tree, why should we care about it just because a random person planted a seed a hundred years ago?
- mikhailfranco 3y agoYes, it's just a tree. A new tree can grow. The Philistine instagrammers will be disappointed. So sad. It's not a Roman tree. A new tree literally grows (on) trees.
- jacquesm 3y agoThis is not about the instagrammers, it is about respect for heritage sites.
- mikhailfranco 3y agohttps://petapixel.com/2023/09/25/influencers-ruin-beauty-spot-photographers-have-used-for-decades/ https://petapixel.com/2023/09/25/influencers-ruin-beauty-spo... https://www.thenationalnews.com/lifestyle/travel/instagrammers-are-complaining-about-this-beauty-spot-in-bali-1.885993 https://www.thenationalnews.com/lifestyle/travel/instagramme... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/17/instagrammers-travel-sri-lanka-tourists-peachy-backsides-social-media-obsessed https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/17/instag...
- 11235813213455 3y agoCan we say the same statement with human instead of tree?
- hiatus 3y agoAre you really comparing cutting down a tree to murdering a human being?
- 11235813213455 3y agomore or less, a tree is highly beneficial to the environment, it takes a long time to replace it (10+ years for that size, which is important for many other species, if only it manage to grow back), a human is not often beneficial on the other side we could compare human and an insect even, or a human and a whale, it's not really about size
- hiatus 3y agoWhen I was a lifeguard as a kid, I once arrived at the pool to find thousands of flies dead, floating on the surface. I thought to myself, "If these flies were humans, this place would be a battlefield," and went on with skimming the pool.
- 11235813213455 3y agothis shows how lethal are humans with their "swimming pools", that's more my thought, not just directly with that water but all the plastic, energy and resources wasted I truely love flies, many beautiful species in trees, extremely useful and evolved insect
- sarchertech 3y agoDepending on the tree, not in your lifetime it won’t. I have a rather nice oak tree that shades my house and my lawn. If someone chops it down, I could plant a new one. It would take 80 years to reach a similar size. For many species it takes much longer than that.
- scott_w 3y agoAs someone reasonably local to this tree, I can tell you that everyone here is pissed off. The anger is fuck all to do with Instagram.
- willis936 3y agoThere's more narrative here. Trees fall all the time. Someone who feels entitled to the level of reclusiveness of one small patch of Earth taking something away from all other humans does not happen all the time.
- drunkan 3y agoAh yes a member of the ever growing "why should I care about anything unless it personally effects me" crowd. May as well proudly bear a tatoo of the word selfish on your forehead. I imagine if someone chopped down a protected tree in an act of vandalism that you grew up seeing every day, carved your names in, or proposed under suddenly you would be filled with outrage after personally being effected.
- JdeBP 3y agoCarving your name in a protected tree is an act of vandalism too, note.
- colesantiago 3y agowouldn't care, I know it's just a tree. circle of life.
- andybak 3y agoHow about the fact that other people cared and were upset? You can dismiss a tree's feelings on account of it not having any. But are you dismissing the (presumably) genuine distress of multiple people?
- dankent 3y agoWhy care about anything?