Should trees pay for our infrastructure?

Question

Here a road, there a bridge, then a flyover, a high rise and so... Trees in our Garden City are paying the price for infrastructure projects that go by varied names.Some are crudely pruned,some are simply chopped.
Should our green resources pay for our urban needs ???

What if this happened in your country what you do about this?

Answer 1

Absolutely Not! The other negative is global warming.......The real source of the problem is the lack of money in third world countries. Costa Rica is probably one of the best countries outside the US for ecological balance, and the enviornment.

We need more people like you that are concerned.

http://www.tortugamarina.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=95&POSTNUKESID=c4c1108f6a5cf3c96f18c080a1b70123

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Mar04/Engler-Martinez0330.htm
Free Trade Threatens Costa Rican Environmental Protections

Date: March 31, 2004
Source: Dissidentvoice.org, U.S.A.

...When most people think of Costa Rica, they don't imagine oil rigs stationed off the pristine beaches. Nor do they envision pit mines cutting into the cloud-forested mountains. But, despite the country's noteworthy conservation efforts, its scenic vistas and extraordinary biodiversity have faced real threats from extractive industries...
http://www.costarica.com/Home/News/Environment

Answer 2

Unfortunately we can not control what others do but we can set a good example for them. Get involved in community activities to help protect your community's environment. Most cities have open forums for citizen opinions on building both public and private. If you see an issue that involves the trees and the landscape as you mentioned, speak up about it. I too hate what some trimmers will do to trees with no consideration for the health of the tree or the trees aesthetics. I have confronted and actually stopped trimmers from butchering a few trees in the past. When I see something done right, such as planting the proper height trees under power wires so they won't be butchered when they reach full height, I tell the city what a good choice they made. Speaking out works both ways.

Answer 3

Definitely no!
Trees should not pay the cost for our ever-expanding urban sprawl.
With good design and careful planning more of these natural features should be kept intact.
They have the natural ability to add to any design!
Why don't more architects, engineers and designers realise this!
Very good question Hope Summer.

EDIT: This does happen in our country, everyone wants to live as close as possible to the coastline here.
Our sand dunes and hinterland areas are being decimated daily to make way for urban expansion.
Hope Summer, as an individual there is little you can do.
But there are environmental groups you can join, these groups have a far stronger voice than a single person.

Answer 4

(from the book of tea) Sad as it is, we cannot conceal the fact that in spite of our companionship with flowers we have not risen very far above the brute. Scratch the sheepskin and the wolf within us will soon show his teeth. It has been said that a man at ten is an animal, at twenty a lunatic, at thirty a failure, at forty a fraud, and at fifty a criminal. Perhaps he becomes a criminal because he has never ceased to be an animal. Nothing is real to us but hunger, nothing sacred except our own desires. Shrine after shrine has crumbled before our eyes; but one altar is forever preserved, that whereon we burn incense to the supreme idol,--ourselves. Our god is great, and money is his Prophet! We devastate nature in order to make sacrifice to him. We boast that we have conquered Matter and forget that it is Matter that has enslaved us. What atrocities do we not perpetrate in the name of culture and refinement!

Answer 5

He's trying the failed Keynesian/socialistic economic plans that never work. All the money will come from from the citizens, either through taxation or inflation. At the end, you'll have too much money (worth zip) chasing too few goods. What America needs now is a good dose of Supply Side economics.

Answer 6

survival of the fittest. Everyone has to have a home to live in. If you feel guilty about chopping down trees join the Arbor day foundation and plant some trees.

Answer 7

Trees can be regrown or replanted. It is that simple. The funiest thing about environmentalists is they usually end up using the things that cause 'damage' to the environment. They use cars, electricity, wood, synthetic materials, natural and processed gas, they build mansions (in the case of John Edwards and Al Gore), or they use private jets (Al Gore, again).

Environmentalism is the new way to shove redistribution of wealth and prosperity down everyone's throats. It is the new method of communism.

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings, the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of misery." - Sir Winston Churchill

Answer 8

The last time I heard, trees are a renewable resource

Answer 9

Those tree have already helped to cut down on co2 emission do u know how many trees have cut down ?.....

Answer 10

I love trees!! We need more of them.