Microcosmic
Added 2025-08-13 17:00:17 +0000 UTCI felt the need to write this down. This was a few weeks ago. As this was happening news was spreading that the people starving to death would not recover even if they suddenly had access to food. It, the culling of all the Sweet Gums, felt like the same sort of helplessness in the face of genocide… obviously there are big differences, but there’s analogy as well.
I wish there was something more I could do. There’s some who would say it’s defeatist to say or think this, but what more can we do, when nothing has had any effect. All we can do is be vocal about it, and not turn a blind eye it seems.
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Oh man do I feel this extremely hard. Beautiful way to put it.
DareBear
2025-08-15 00:47:22 +0000 UTCApparently they were planted in California because a native tree was being killed off by disease, and the Sweet Gums were immune to it. They were very popular for a few decades but now people don’t like them. The more trees the better, I say.
Dave Davenport (dogspunk)
2025-08-13 22:01:00 +0000 UTCHow very sad! I know people get on their high horses about eradicating non-native species, and I agree with this when the invasive species is choking out native plant species which most often tends to be in the wild, not in our gardens. In general, I think trees fall into a different category as in reality so many of them have been part of the local landscape that they are now food and shelter sources for our fauna so removal of them has a much wider impact in terms of destroying food sources and shelter for birds and other animals to say nothing of the climate impacts. Sadly, people get focused narrowly on one issue and do not understand the broader impact of mass removal. Would rather people focus energy on planting native species going forward.
Ken Pflueger
2025-08-13 20:21:52 +0000 UTC
