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Unfortunately the decision is often made based on costs, and chopping them down is cheaper than employing an arborist (?) to make sure the tree is reinforced pr

Unfortunately the decision is often made based on costs, and chopping them down is cheaper than employing an arborist (?) to make sure the tree is reinforced properly. Please don't get me wrong, I agree with you. In many historic cities, there are trees that are hundreds of years old. There are trees that have been around since before the invention of the telegraph, lived through 2 world wars and are still going strong! There are efforts to keep these alive, but I feel newly planted trees won't get the chance to live that long :(

lukan 2y ago
"There are trees that have been around since before the invention of the telegraph" There are trees, that are allmost 5000 years old, so around the time humans started building cities. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_trees https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_trees The oldest tree in a city might be this one, 2300 years old, living history. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaya_Sri_Maha_Bodhi https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaya_Sri_Maha_Bodhi Around here, they also plan to chop down a lot of trees that are around 200 years old, because the road repairs are cheaper with them gone. I hope it does not get to it as resistance is forming, but I might consider climbing and sitting there to block it.