January 13th, 2009 (4:20pm)
CRUCIAL BLOG ENTRY #5
THE DISPOSABLE HEROES OF CHRISTMAS
As I was walking down the street today in Toronto, I was saddened to see all the Christmas trees that were discarded and chucked to the curb like yesterday’s news. House after house had trees kicked to the curb after just a couple of weeks of "enjoyment" then it’s SEE YA.
It is a true waste of nature and beauty to chop down a tree just to decorate it, water it, and enjoy it for 2/3 weeks: it is consumerism gone mad.
CUTTING DOWN A REAL BREATHING TREE THAT IS ALIVE IS A TRADITION THAT OUR GENERATION MUST END.
What alternative options are there for people?
1. A reusable fake tree not only eliminates the need to purchase a "new" tree each year, but it also creates less waste, garbage and expense if re-used year after year. That is the cost-effective environmentally-friendly way to go.
2. Why not use a simple plant or a PointSetta?
3. Do what I did when I lived in Whistler----this may only work for the single folk out there with no kids—we use to go into our "backyard" which was Whistler Mountain and put a table under a tree, fill the table with presents and bottles of booze and enjoy the Christmas spirit deck-out warmly in the great Canadian outdoors.
Please think twice about getting a real tree next year.
Keep it Crucial.
Paul Benoit
Creator / Producer / Writer
www.crucialmatters.com
Toronto, Canada
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Hate to burst your bubble. but Christmas Trees are grown on farms, like wheat and corn. They are a renewable resource, and are grown on these farms specifically to be chopped down and used as Christmas trees. They are not RAPED from a thriving forest.When they are disposed of, they are mulched, turn back into soil, and thus the cycle of life continues.
ReplyDeleteSteve Anthony
Heh Steve.
ReplyDeletethank you for your comment and I do know that Christmas trees are "farmed" but I still think that it is quite wasteful to grow a tres for several years just to dress it up and watch it in a corner or one's house for a couple of weeks. It still takes energy, effort, resources to grow, chop, ship, and then recycle. It seems like a lot of work for a couple of weeks of "enjoynment". I prefer to enjoy my trees in nature.