Plant Trees & Not Cut Tress For X'mas

Amidst global warming, this mindless culture and tradition of chopping trees is insanity. 

Virtue signaling of driving Tesla to nationalism of self is far from being rare.  But yet, these folks  irrespective of their ideologies don't even reflect for a minute chopping trees which takes decades to grow. 

When Max was a puppy, he and I planted a tree next to the AC unit where it was close to impossible for the tree to grow. It was filled with hard rocks plus there was this huge AC unit. I was talking to Max all along for an hour or so as I was digging the hole and at one point after planting the tree I told him: 

Max, this tree will outlive both of us. Of the living beings in the world, this tree will remember us when we both are gone. 

Close to fifteen years later, that tree indeed is flourishing because of anti-fragility. A tree grows in Max's home and will remember those simple moments decades or centuries later when a dog and a human planted him when he was a baby. 

There is immense beauty in it. 

What is beautiful about cutting a baby tree to keep it inside the house for 2 weeks and throwing it in the dumpster?

I haven't met Jesus but I see him as a kind man. Maybe one of the kindest men ever. I bet he would love the idea of planting trees for Christmas instead of cutting them. 

Thankfully, some humans in France have started questioning this insanity:

"I have nothing against Christmas trees. I have my own fond memories of decorating them as a girl," Ms André says.

"But times have changed. We are living through an ecological transition. Everything that pollutes has got to stop.

"People in cities are fooled by the marketing which tells them that Christmas trees are 'natural' - as if they're all from some magic forest. The reality is that it's a form of intensive agriculture."

It is not just environmental campaigners who are questioning the ethics of Christmas trees.

French consumers are also increasingly curious about the provenance of their Nordmanns and Epiceas.

Is it responsible, they are asking, to fast-track millions of baby trees only for them to be cut down and kept in living rooms for perhaps a fortnight?