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- From: mnb@voodoo.boeing.com (Mike Burr)
- Newsgroups: rec.gardens
- Subject: Re: Christmas tree alternative?
- Message-ID: <3349@voodoo.UUCP>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 02:25:03 GMT
- References: <1eb20eINN4oi@cat.cis.Brown.EDU> <1eb5k9INNe8r@transfer.stratus.com> <lgi9grINN85d@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>
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- In article <lgi9grINN85d@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> maynard@anchor.Corp.Sun.COM (Alexandra R. Ohlson) writes:
- >I'll play devil's advocate on this one.
- >
- >I would wager that most Christmas trees are grown on Christmas tree
- >farms and not cut wild. If there were no demand for the cut trees,
- >the farms would not exist and the earth would miss out on the 2-4
- >years of green growth it took for the trees to mature.
-
- But maybe the land would have never been cleared in the first place.
- Or possibly put to more "productive" uses.
-
- >It's actually
- >a lovely tradition - bringing a little of nature inside to live with.
-
- Like most familys, the family I grew up in participated in this tradition.
- But now as an adult, the concept of destroying trees mearly to decorate
- your living room for a few weeks and then toss out, seems to trivialize life
- and contradict the very concepts of Christmas to me. Perhaps I'm too
- sensitive about life.... I also "evict" the bugs in my house rather than
- kill them.
-
-
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- Michael Burr Boeing Computer Services, Bellevue WA
- Email:mnb@voodoo.ca.boeing.com
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