Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights
1–10 of 104 posts
Re: Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights
#2Finally. There should be major repercussions for destroying trees, especially within the cities that look increasingly like concrete blocks.
Re: Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights
#3Inbefore extreme NIMBY
Re: Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights
#4Finally. There should be major repercussions for destroying trees, especially within the cities that look increasingly like concrete blocks.
Most cities already have strict rules for removing existing trees. Usually anything over 6 inch diameter at shoulder level is off limits without getting specific approval.
Re: Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights
#5Finally!
Trees are fantastic creatures.
(I'd happily go as far as calling them Beings, but I'm afraid it would sound like some kind of a new age esoteric bullshit, even so I'm borderline convinced they are sentient.)
The important thing that fascinates me is how Tree actually work. They are generally perceived as growing from the soil to the atmosphere. However, the opposite is true. About 98% of the material of a tree is originated from the air, namely the carbon extracted from the CO2 content of the air. Trees are literally growing from the air, and piercing down into the soil to get water to run their Calvin cycles to extract the carbon and produce the ATP.
Knowing this, I'd be more than surprised if Trees - or plants in general - haven't had any methods to control their food source: the atmosphere. I believe they do. And by destroying them, we are limiting this control. Looking from this angle, there is very little surprise in the onset of weather extremes.
I summary, I'm very happy with this legislation. I hope this a first step in many that is actually going to help us taming the climate of our planet again. With more trees. Because trees are awesome.
Re: Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights
#6[flagged]
Re: Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights
#7Finally. There should be major repercussions for destroying trees, especially within the cities that look increasingly like concrete blocks.
Living in Queens NYC I can see the large disparity between the greenery prevalent in the tax photos present on 1940s.nyc. After my grandparents passed we sold the house that had three nice shade trees, patio, a garden, grass along the side and a front lawn. Only the front lawn remains. The rest was entombed in concrete. Houses around the area suffer the same fate - yards completely devoid of green life and instead concrete. When it rains water pours down driveways into the gutter leaving the combined sewer system to deal with water that should be in the earth.
Re: Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights
#8I'm pro-tree, but I feel like you can protect them without sounding this ridiculous
Re: Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights
#9Such a weird idea. Do they recognize the right of cockroaches to life as well - as they are much more clearly living beings with some realistic chance of being sentient and feeling pain? What about tomatoes or roses or other plants?
Note that I'm all for the protection of trees - for pretty obvious environmental, esthetic, and human usage reasons. I just don't think recognizing trees as having their own rights as living beings makes any sense whatsoever.
Re: Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights
#10I'm pro-tree, but I feel like you can protect them without sounding this ridiculous
The goal is definitely not to protect trees.