Tree hugger's?

Question

Do you think it is hpycritical of tree huggers (that want to protect the forest) to live in wood houses?????????

Answer 1

I think its hypocritical when they damn Brazil for cuttting down the rainforest for farm lands and then damn the USA for not being like Brazil and using ethanol only.

Answer 2

It is good luck to hug a tree. You say tree hugger like it's a bad thing. Tree huggers are great. Hug a tree, don't hurt it. Trees are our friends. Trees are wise beyond their years and many live longer than you do. They have seen many sunrises and sunsets, and have felt their neighbors cruelly cut down by some greedy human with a chain saw. If tree huggers (peace be upon them) live in wood houses, it's because the wood is already cut down. Just because I hate air pollution doesn't mean I don't have to take a breath every now and then.

Answer 3

Not at all, unless they believe in never cutting any trees down. But I don't know a single "tree hugger" who believes that.

Most environmentalists want to protect old growth forests. Those are the ones that having been cut down and regrown in the past 500 or so years. They are much different from newer forest, and much more valuable as habitat. Nearly all forests in the U.S. have been logged or cleared for farms since Columbus came, but those forests are nothing like an old-growth forest. Go visit one and you'll be amazed.

Environmentalists also want to protect newer habitat areas of course. And they want forests to be harvested and regrown sustainably, meaning they don't make things worse in the long run. You can get wood from sustainably harvested forests that is certified as such, sort of like organic food is certified.

As long as a house isn't built with wood from endangered species, old-growth forests, or forests that have high environmental value, it's no problem to use wood.

If you meet a tree hugger who believes that no tree of any kind should ever be cut down, please let us know. I'll join you in condemning that extreme position. But I doubt you'll find one.

Answer 4

Not if the wood for that house was commercially grown, with trees planted years before to replace those that will be eventually cut down, so as to be sustainable. Same difference with eating farm-raised fish instead of wild

Answer 5

Well tree huggers are a lost cause; because the forest industry realized years ago it was prudent to plant more trees then they harvested every year so there would always be a crop of trees available. So again capitalist industry beat the environmentalist at their own game..

Answer 6

It depends on whether the houses are constructed only of natural deadfall -- otherwise, yes.

Answer 7

Why not? the religous "sin" all the time!

I dont care if the "have wood" or not!
heh heh

Answer 8

No, because rational people realize that forests regrow themselves.

Answer 9

The whole environmental movement is hypocritical

Answer 10

grrr... hippies grrr... liberials