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People who want to chop down trees for any reason other than them being in danger of falling down really baffle me.
by padjo 1y ago
People who want to chop down trees for any reason other than them being in danger of falling down really baffle me.
- sillystu04 1y agoI hate male trees because they make hay fever much worse. Cutting them down and replacing them with female trees would achieve all the good benefits of trees without affecting hay fever. The only downside of female trees is that they shed pods, fruits & seeds into urban environments. But even this might conceivably have some benefits to biodiversity. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/16/how-urban-planners-preference-for-male-trees-has-made-your-hay-fever-worse https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/16/how-urba...
- badmintonbaseba 1y agoWould the female trees do that if there weren't any male trees around?
- bluGill 1y agoNot many male trees are needed to breed so even if one is around you get the problem. Not all trees have separate male and female trees as well. If you only have one type of tree you have no biodiversity and that is almost as bad as no trees.
- CGamesPlay 1y agoThis comment sounded very strange to me, but as the linked article says about "male" trees: > Growers’ breeding of purely male diodar trees had created, said Ogren, “something that doesn’t even exist in nature”.
- lippihom 1y agoA note about hay fever - not sure how bad yours is but mine was debilitating (hated leave the house during spring). The last two years I've been doing immunotherapy shots in the winter and this year my allergies are almost completely gone. It's been an unbelievable quality of life change. Would highly recommend if you have insurance that covers it (tho looking back now, I'd also gladly pay out of pocket).
- padjo 1y agoIronically the tree outside my house was recently removed because the fruit annoyed people. Personally I thought the tree was well worth the hour or two a year it took to remove the fruit in autumn.
- bluGill 1y agoNon native trees can be a harmful invader to the native environment and should be chopped down. If you can get a large enough area to do it at once chopping down all of a type of tree can stop the spread of disease thus saving tree father away that get isolated (though you can argue these are trees in danger of falling anyway)
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- stackedinserter 1y agoMy former landlord (his wife, actually) forced our neighbours to cut down their beautiful apple tree because in August, every two years, apples fell on the ground and made mess on a shared lawn.
- 0x000xca0xfe 1y agoYes! It's insane to me how many people value concrete more than trees.
- tppiotrowski 1y agoThere are a few other reasons that aren't baffling: roots destroy water pipes and heave sidewalks and pavement. They can interfere with power lines as well. :(
- dylan604 1y agosounds more like poor planning than anything else.
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